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1’079’782

published Swiss court decisions, 1875–2026

+75 2026-09-12

CC0 · all 26 cantons + federal courts

The open record of Swiss law, rebuilt every day.

Published decisions from every federal and cantonal court, plus 21,000+ federal and cantonal laws. Open data (CC0), machine-readable.

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01  Inside the corpus

An open dataset of Swiss law.

1’079’782 decisions
Published rulings from the Federal Supreme Court, every federal court, and all 26 cantons, 1875–2026, in German, French and Italian.
9’627 ECtHR judgments
The Swiss-respondent case law, plus every Chamber and Grand Chamber judgment of importance 1–3 against any of the 46 Council of Europe states, 1960–2026.
21’153 laws
5,525 federal laws (Fedlex) and 15,600 cantonal acts, with 494,000+ articles.
10.0M citations
A resolved citation graph linking decisions to the decisions and statutes they cite.

Case law

BGE · Official reports of the Federal Supreme CourtThe Federal Supreme Court’s published leading cases, since 1875.
50’486
Federal Supreme Court (BGer)Every decision published online since 1986, far beyond the official reports.
192’853
Federal Administrative Court (BVGer)Asylum, immigration, procurement, supervision and more.
108’665
Federal Criminal Court (BStGer)Criminal, complaints and appeals chambers.
11’645
Federal Patent Court (BPatGer)Patent infringement and validity.
196
Military Court of Cassation (MKG)Military case law.
1’244
Cantonal courts · all 26 cantonsSuperior, administrative, social-insurance, commercial and specialised courts, each from the official source.
656’570

Regulatory decisions

FINMA · enforcement & insurance rulingsDecisions of the financial-market supervisor.
3’038
FDPIC · data protection & freedom of informationThe federal data-protection authority’s recommendations and decisions.
1’816
UBI · broadcasting complaintsThe independent broadcasting complaints authority.
667
Further regulators & commissionsCOMCO · ElCom · ESchK · PostCom · ComCom · BAZG · ESBK · Price Supervisor · RAB
1’529

Administrative practice

FINMA circularsEvery published version, in force and superseded, DE/FR/IT/EN.
1’133
ESTV circularsDirect federal tax, withholding tax, stamp duties.
285
ESTV VAT guidanceThe published VAT practice.
153
SECO commentary · Employment ActArG and ArGV 1–5, article by article, DE/FR/IT.
1’102
FOEN enforcement aidsEnvironmental law as enforced.
297
SEM directivesDirectives and circulars on immigration and asylum law.
92
VPB / JAAC · federal administrative practiceThe historical collection 1900–2016, full text.
23’046

Legislative materials

Federal Council dispatches (Botschaften)Verbatim, searchable to the paragraph, 421’000+ paragraphs for legislative history.
6’157

Commentary & scholarship

Commentaries · OnlineKommentarArticle-level commentary on 23 acts, CC-BY.
1’173
ScholarshipOpen-access publications from 24 Swiss repositories, full-text search.
44’497

02  Coverage

All 26 cantons and the federal courts.

Published decisions per jurisdiction, scraped directly from each official source, deduplicated, and rebuilt nightly.

123 courts · 26 cantons · federal courts

03  Updates

Rebuilt every night.

Courts are re-scraped daily; the corpus, the citation graph and this page are regenerated automatically — current per-court status on the coverage page.

+75
new today
151
years of case law
3
national languages

As of 2026-09-12

04  Connect

Three ways to use the corpus.

Chat with your AI, automate a research workflow, or download the data for local analysis.

Chat with your AI

Connect an MCP client to search decisions, inspect passages and follow citations.

Automate research

Use REST or the research CLI for scripts, citation resolution and saved evidence bundles.

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Use the Parquet dataset for local analysis, retrieval experiments and corpus-scale research.
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