SleekRank for statute pages
Researchers search statute citations and short titles, expecting a page on that exact section. SleekRank reads the statute corpus and renders one indexable URL per section with citation, text, and cross-references.
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Statute search needs one URL per section, not one URL per code
State and federal statute search is a textbook search-by-record case. A user types "42 U.S.C. 1983" or "California Penal Code 245" and expects to land on that section, not a search box or a code-level index. Official sites often render statute text in framesets or JS viewers that crawlers ignore, so third-party aggregators outrank the canonical record.
SleekRank reads a statute corpus (the U.S. Code XML release, a state legislative export, or a curated Casetext-style subset) and renders one page per section against a base WordPress page. Tag mappings handle the citation, short title, and code. Selector mappings inject the section text, effective date, and last-revised note. List mappings render the subsections and cross-references. Meta mappings keep the description tied to the section summary.
A famous civil-rights section lives at /statutes/42-usc-1983/ with its full text. A state assault statute lives at /statutes/cal-pen-245/ with its own subsections. Same template, different rows, individually crawlable, each one ranking for the citation and the short title researchers actually type.
Workflow
From statute corpus to per-section indexable pages
Pull the corpus
Configure the page group
Wire the mappings
Refresh on revision
Data in, pages out
From statute corpus to per-section pages
| slug | citation | code | shortTitle | lastRevised |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 42-usc-1983 | 42 U.S.C. 1983 | United States Code | Civil action for deprivation of rights | 1996-04-26 |
| 18-usc-1030 | 18 U.S.C. 1030 | United States Code | Computer Fraud and Abuse Act | 2008-09-26 |
| cal-pen-245 | Cal. Pen. Code 245 | California Penal Code | Assault with a deadly weapon | 2022-01-01 |
| ny-cpl-30-30 | N.Y. CPL 30.30 | NY Criminal Procedure Law | Speedy trial; time limitations | 2023-05-09 |
| tex-bus-com-17-46 | Tex. Bus. & Com. 17.46 | Texas Business & Commerce Code | Deceptive trade practices | 2023-09-01 |
/statutes/{slug}/
- /statutes/42-usc-1983/
- /statutes/18-usc-1030/
- /statutes/cal-pen-245/
- /statutes/ny-cpl-30-30/
- /statutes/tex-bus-com-17-46/
Comparison
Statute viewer vs per-section pages
Framed or JS statute viewer
- Frameset and JS viewers hide statute text from crawlers
- Citation queries land on a code index, not the section
- Cross-references render as JS links, not crawlable hrefs
- Effective and revision dates live outside the page body
- Subsection deep-linking relies on anchor handling that breaks easily
- Editorial annotations have nowhere canonical to live
SleekRank
- One indexable URL per statute section in the corpus
- Section text, effective date, and revision history as crawlable HTML
- Cross-references rendered as internal links between sections
- Subsections deep-linkable via stable anchors
- Sitemap registers every statute URL
- Cache refresh on revision-date change
Features
What SleekRank gives you for statute pages
Per-section URL
Every statute section gets a /statutes/{slug}/ page with citation, short title, and full text rendered as crawlable HTML, not trapped inside a frameset or JS viewer.
Cross-references
List mapping renders each section's cross-references as internal links to the corresponding /statutes/{slug}/ page, so researchers can navigate related sections by clicking.
Revision history
Effective date and last-revised note live on the row and render as a small history block on every page, with optional links to prior versions if the corpus retains them.
Use cases
Who builds statute pages with SleekRank
Legal publishers
Annotated-code publishers and bar associations who want to own canonical per-section URLs alongside the editorial annotations they author for each statute.
Law schools
Casebook projects that pair statutory sections with related case-law pages, so a course site can deep-link between a leading case and the statute it interprets.
Advocacy organisations
Civil-rights and public-interest groups that publish statute primers, with each cited section rendered as a permanent URL the rest of the site links to.
The bigger picture
Why per-section statute pages beat a code viewer
Statute citations are the cleanest possible search-by-record case. Researchers type the citation directly, and there is exactly one right page for each citation. Official sites that render statutes inside framesets or JS viewers fail that contract, because no canonical URL exists for crawlers to surface.
Third-party aggregators step in and capture the traffic, often without the editorial annotations that domain publishers add. Per-section pages on a publisher's own site close that gap: every section in the corpus becomes a permanent URL with the citation, text, cross-references, and history as crawlable HTML. The same template handles a one-paragraph definitional section and a multi-page operative section equally well, and revision tracking makes it easy to keep the corpus current.
Internal links between statute sections and the cases that interpret them compound topical authority across the entire legal section.
Questions
Common questions about SleekRank for statute pages
The U.S. Code is available as an XML export from the Office of the Law Revision Counsel. Many state legislatures publish XML or JSON exports of their codes. Where official exports lag, commercial vendors like Justia and Casetext offer bulk subsets that can be licensed for republication with proper attribution.
The pages are derivative records that reproduce public statute text, not the official codified version. The template should make that clear with a source link to the official version and a note that the official source is authoritative, especially for currency.
Subsections render under stable anchors (e.g. /statutes/42-usc-1983/#b-2) so external citations can deep-link to a specific subsection. The base template uses a heading-anchor pattern that resists rewrites, since legal citations expect anchors to remain stable.
The lastRevised field on each row drives a small history block, and the cache refresh is triggered when revision dates change in the source. Some publishers maintain prior-version pages under a /statutes/{slug}/history/{date}/ path; the current page links to that archive for transparency.
Yes. Each row carries an array of related citations. List mapping renders them as internal links to the corresponding /statutes/{slug}/ page where one exists in the page group, otherwise as plain text. The mapping resolves at render time, so newly added sections automatically light up cross-references on existing pages.
Yes. SleekRank registers every generated URL with the sitemap and noindexes the base template page so only section URLs get crawled. New sections added to the corpus appear in the sitemap on the next cache refresh.
The standard pattern is code-section (42-usc-1983, cal-pen-245). That mirrors the citation convention and keeps the slug readable. State codes typically use the abbreviated code name in the slug (cal-pen, tex-bus-com, ny-cpl).
Yes. Add a relatedCases array to each row pointing at /cases/{slug}/ URLs in the case-law page group. The cross-section navigation between statutes and cases is one of the strongest topical signals a legal site can build, because researchers move between the two surfaces constantly.
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