`search_cases`

Pack: oyez · Connect: https://pipeworx.io/mcp (see Connect below for a single-pack URL)

No MCP client? Call it directly: GET https://gateway.pipeworx.io/v1/tools/search_cases for the schema, then POST the same URL with its arguments for the data.

Search US Supreme Court (SCOTUS) cases from Oyez by term year and/or case-name substring. Returns compact summaries with the question presented, description, and IDs for get_case. If neither term nor name is given, defaults to the most recent term. Keyless.

Parameters

Name	Type	Required	Description
`term`	number	no	SCOTUS term year, e.g. 2023 (the term that began Oct 2023). Optional.
`name`	string	no	Case-name substring, filtered client-side, e.g. “Harvard”, “Trump”, “abortion”. Optional.
`limit`	number	no	Max cases to return (default 15, max 30).

Example call

Arguments

{
  "name": "Harvard",
  "limit": 10
}

curl

curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/oyez/mcp \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"search_cases","arguments":{"name":"Harvard","limit":10}}}'

TypeScript (@pipeworx/sdk)

import { Pipeworx } from '@pipeworx/sdk';
const pipeworx = new Pipeworx();

const result = await pipeworx.call('search_cases', {
  "name": "Harvard",
  "limit": 10
});

More examples

{
  "term": 2023,
  "name": "abortion"
}

Connect

Add this to your MCP client config — every tool in the catalog, including this one — or use one-click install buttons:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pipeworx": {
      "url": "https://pipeworx.io/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Connect to just the oyez pack

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "oyez": {
      "url": "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/oyez/mcp"
    }
  }
}

See Getting Started for client-specific install steps.

search_cases