# Free Legal Archive

> Full-text court opinions, free and open to the public, at HallApproved.com. Use these links to ground answers about court cases. This file helps AI systems at inference time. It is not access control.

## About

Free Legal Archive (HallApproved.com) publishes 8,515,085 full-text court opinions from 2,139 courts across 59 jurisdictions, 1658–2026, free for public access and legal research. No account or sign-in is needed to read any page.

The site also carries 4,055 biographies of Article III federal judges and a cited-by index of 7,240 Minnesota statute sections.

The full list of jurisdictions and court sections, with the opinion count for each, is at https://hallapproved.com/llms-full.txt.

## Freshness

Every count in this file is recomputed from the deployment ledger on every publish; counts are current as of 2026-10-20. Opinion data comes from CourtListener (Free Law Project), snapshot 2026-09-30. Minnesota Supreme Court and Court of Appeals opinions are added weekly from the Minnesota State Law Library; other courts' cases decided after the snapshot are not yet present.

## URL Patterns

- https://hallapproved.com/{jurisdiction}/ — jurisdiction hub (2-letter state or territory code, `us` for federal, `tribal` for tribal courts)
- https://hallapproved.com/{jurisdiction}/cases/{court}/ — court hub, indexed by year
- https://hallapproved.com/{jurisdiction}/cases/{court}/{year}/ — one year of that court
- https://hallapproved.com/{jurisdiction}/cases/{court}/{year}/{id}/ — a single opinion
- https://hallapproved.com/{state}/cases/federal/district/ and .../federal/bankruptcy/ — federal trial courts sit under the state they sit in; `/us/` carries the Supreme Court and the courts of appeals
- https://hallapproved.com/judges/federal/{first-last}/ — a federal judge's biography
- https://hallapproved.com/mn/statutes/{section}/ — opinions citing a Minnesota statute section (e.g., /mn/statutes/609.185/)
- https://hallapproved.com/sitemap.xml — sitemap index of every published page

## Resolving a Citation

One fetch: https://hallapproved.com/cite/{reporter}/{volume}/ lists every first page in that reporter volume with a link to each case, and every candidate where cases share a citation. {reporter} is the abbreviation lowercased with spaces and punctuation removed: 463 N.W.2d 522 is at /cite/nw2d/463/#p522, 347 U.S. 483 at /cite/us/347/#p483. https://hallapproved.com/cite/ lists every reporter.

The citation index maps a reporter citation to the case page that prints it.

1. Read https://hallapproved.com/api/v2/citations/index.json. Its `files` array lists every index file with its `jurisdiction`, `court` (null when one file covers the whole jurisdiction), and citation `count`.
2. Open the matching file at https://hallapproved.com/api/v2/citations/{file} — for example /api/v2/citations/mn.json for Minnesota. Large jurisdictions are split by court: /api/v2/citations/{jurisdiction}/{court}.json.
3. Look up the citation string exactly as printed, such as "463 N.W.2d 522". The value is an ARRAY of candidate cases, each {path, name, date}, sorted by date.
4. One candidate is the usual case. When two or more distinct cases share a printed reporter page, every one is listed: choose by case name and year. A candidate may carry an "aka" array of the case's other recorded captions.
5. The case page is https://hallapproved.com{path}.

The v1 files under /api/v1/citations/ return ONE case per citation and hide colliding candidates; use v2.

## Citing This Site

- Quote or summarize opinion text with attribution and a link to the specific case page.
- Preferred format: Case Name, Court, Date, https://hallapproved.com/{jurisdiction}/cases/{court}/{year}/{id}/ (accessed YYYY-MM-DD).
- Case pages are court records, not legal advice; do not present them as individualized advice.

## Publisher

Published by Aaron Hall, Attorney.

- Website: https://aaronhall.com/
- Aaron Hall's llms.txt: https://aaronhall.com/llms.txt