DDockaseAPI

Dockase Developer API · v1

The legal data bank. Build your AI on it.

Two lanes, one REST API. The AELR Nigerian case-law corpus — 13,000+ judgments with a full citation graph — and global legal AI primitives anyone can build on: domain-trained embeddings and citation verification, with specialized contract models coming soon.

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Quickstart — first call in under a minute

curl
curl https://api.dockase.com/v1/judgments/search \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer dk_live_..." \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "query": "locus standi in election petitions",
    "limit": 5
  }'

Every response is wrapped in { data, meta } with a request ID.

Reference

Six endpoints today. Specialized models next.

POSTNigeria
/v1/judgments/search

Search judgments

Semantic search over 13,000+ Nigerian judgments, with court-level and year filters.

GETNigeria
/v1/judgments/{id}

Get a judgment

Citation, court, ratio, summary — Pro plans and above get the full judgment text.

GETNigeria
/v1/judgments/{id}/citations

Citation graph

Everything a case cites and everything that cites it — followed, considered, distinguished, overruled.

POSTNigeria
/v1/citations/verify

Verify a citation

Check a citation or case name against the real record. Built to catch hallucinated authorities.

GETNigeria
/v1/statutes

Statutes

Nigerian statutes in clean markdown, filterable by category and jurisdiction.

POSTGlobal
/v1/embeddings

Legal embeddings

amicus-embed-ng-v1: a legal-domain embedding model anyone can build on, from anywhere. OpenAI-compatible.

SOONComing soon
/v1/models/*

Specialized contract models

Small, purpose-trained models for contract review, clause extraction, and drafting. Talk to us about early access.

Start on the free tier — 1,000 calls a month, no card required. See pricing.