SleekRank for case law pages
Researchers search by citation, party name, or doctrine. SleekRank reads the case-law feed and renders one indexable URL per decision with citation, parties, court, year, and a structured holding.
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Case-law research deserves crawlable per-decision pages
Free case-law search has improved (CourtListener, Google Scholar, Caselaw Access Project), but most domain-specific publishers still surface decisions through a search widget. The widget itself is one URL, and individual decision pages either don't exist or render inside JS, leaving citation-level queries to rank on generic third-party sites instead of the publisher with editorial expertise.
SleekRank reads a case-law feed (a Caselaw Access Project export, a CourtListener REST pull, or a curated CSV maintained by a legal-research team) and renders one page per decision against a base WordPress page. Tag mappings handle the citation, parties, and court. Selector mappings inject the year, judge, holding summary, and disposition. List mappings render headnotes, citations cited, and citations citing. Meta mappings keep the description tied to the holding.
A landmark Fourth Amendment case lives at /cases/katz-v-united-states-389-us-347/. A circuit-split copyright case lives at its own URL. Same template, different rows, individually crawlable, each one ranking for the citation, the party name, and the doctrinal language researchers type.
Workflow
From case-law feed to per-decision indexable pages
Pull the case-law feed
Configure the page group
Wire the mappings
Refresh and crawl
Data in, pages out
From case-law feed to per-decision pages
| slug | citation | court | year | topic |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| katz-v-united-states-389-us-347 | 389 U.S. 347 | U.S. Supreme Court | 1967 | Fourth Amendment |
| lochner-v-new-york-198-us-45 | 198 U.S. 45 | U.S. Supreme Court | 1905 | Due Process |
| sony-v-universal-464-us-417 | 464 U.S. 417 | U.S. Supreme Court | 1984 | Copyright |
| west-virginia-v-epa-597-us-697 | 597 U.S. 697 | U.S. Supreme Court | 2022 | Administrative Law |
| erie-v-tompkins-304-us-64 | 304 U.S. 64 | U.S. Supreme Court | 1938 | Civil Procedure |
/cases/{slug}/
- /cases/katz-v-united-states-389-us-347/
- /cases/lochner-v-new-york-198-us-45/
- /cases/sony-v-universal-464-us-417/
- /cases/west-virginia-v-epa-597-us-697/
- /cases/erie-v-tompkins-304-us-64/
Comparison
Case-law search widget vs per-decision pages
JS case-law search widget
- Search results render in JS and rarely get indexed
- Citation-level queries lose to third-party aggregators
- Headnotes and holding summaries live behind interactions
- Citation networks are invisible to crawlers
- Editorial commentary has no canonical URL to anchor to
- Schema for legal cases cannot vary per record from one template
SleekRank
- One indexable URL per decision in the feed
- Citation, parties, court, and year as crawlable text
- Holding summary and headnotes rendered as page content
- Citation network rendered via list mapping
- Sitemap registers every case URL
- Editorial annotations live on the same canonical URL
Features
What SleekRank gives you for case law pages
Per-decision URL
Every case in the feed gets a /cases/{slug}/ page with citation, parties, court, and year rendered as crawlable HTML, replacing a JS search widget with permanent decision pages.
Citation network
List mappings render cases cited and cases citing as two clear lists with links to each related decision's page, so researchers can navigate the graph by clicking.
Editorial annotations
An editorialNotes field on each row renders as a Commentary section, letting a publication add doctrinal analysis next to the structured record without breaking the canonical URL.
Use cases
Who builds case law pages with SleekRank
Law schools and clinics
Casebook projects and research clinics that publish curated case sets per course or topic, with each decision rendered as a permanent indexable URL for citation.
Legal publishers
Bar associations and legal-news outlets that want per-decision pages as the canonical artifact under their domain, replacing thin reference pages with structured records.
Public-interest groups
Civil-liberties and advocacy organisations maintaining issue-specific case trackers (free speech, voting rights, surveillance) where each landmark case earns its own page.
The bigger picture
Why per-decision case-law pages beat a search widget
Legal research is the canonical search-by-record use case: a researcher knows the citation, the party name, or the doctrine, and they want the decision page. A search widget cannot rank for citation-level queries because there is no decision-named URL for search engines to surface. Per-decision pages give every case in a curated set its own permanent URL, with citation, parties, holding, and citation network as crawlable HTML.
Casebook projects, clinics, and legal publishers benefit because their editorial expertise finally has a canonical surface to live on, instead of being trapped inside a JS widget. The same data model supports later additions like Shepardizing-style citation flags, judge analytics, and topic clusters, all anchored to the same slug per decision. Updates to the feed propagate without touching templates.
Questions
Common questions about SleekRank for case law pages
Several public feeds work well: the Caselaw Access Project covers U.S. case law through 2020, CourtListener via the Free Law Project offers an active REST API, and Google Scholar exports are common for academic use. Many publishers maintain a curated subset of cases relevant to their domain, joining the feed with editorial fields in a parallel sheet.
No. The pages are derivative records that summarise and link to public opinions, not the official text from the court. The template should make that clear with a source link to the underlying opinion and a note that the official version is authoritative.
Headnotes can come from the source feed (CAP and some commercial feeds include them) or be authored by editors. They live on the row as an array of short paragraphs, and list mapping renders them as a numbered block on the page.
Yes. Cases cited and cases citing are two arrays on the row, each with citation and slug. List mappings render them as two lists with internal links to the corresponding /cases/{slug}/ page when it exists in the page group, otherwise as outbound links to the source.
Daily refresh is generous for case-law data, which moves slowly. The bigger refresh trigger is when editors add new cases or revise headnotes. SleekRank picks up source changes on the next cache flush, so editing the sheet and bumping the cache version is the standard update flow.
Yes. SleekRank registers every generated URL with the sitemap and noindexes the base template page so only decision URLs get crawled. New cases added to the curated set appear in the sitemap on the next cache refresh.
The standard pattern is parties-citation (katz-v-united-states-389-us-347). That keeps the slug readable and stable, and it matches how researchers typically cite the case in conversation. Volume and reporter shorthand in the slug helps disambiguate cases with similar parties.
Yes. Add an editorialNotes field to the row (or join from a separate sheet) and the template renders it as a Commentary section. The structured data stays factual and the commentary stays clearly editorial, which is the right contract for a legal publication.
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