Corte Constitucional

The Corte Constitucional de Colombia has handed down close to 50,000 rulings since 1992: tutela judgments (T), constitutionality judgments (C), unification judgments (SU) and autos (A). Each one here comes with its full text, what the court decided, the rights at stake, the magistrado ponente, the case file number, and a link to the ruling on the court’s own site. Search across all of them at once, by kind, year, case file, ponente or date, or with free text that reaches into the body of every ruling.

The whole source, organized and ready to query: every endpoint on this page answers in milliseconds. Every response carries as_of: how current the data is. How datasets work.

Search the rulings

POST /co/corte-constitucional/rulings-search/v1 Dataset One search over the full text of every ruling since 1992, filtered by kind, year, case file, ponente or date.

Field	Type	Notes
`query`	string	Optional words matched against the ruling’s number, case file number, topics, synopsis, decision and full text.
`type`	string	Optional kind of ruling: `T` (tutela), `C` (constitucionalidad), `SU` (unificación) or `A` (auto). The Spanish names work too.
`year`	integer	Optional year of the ruling (the 2025 of T-013/25). 0 searches every year. Default `0`.
`registration_number`	string	Optional case file number (expediente) as the court writes it: `T-10417884`, `D-15234`. Case and spaces are ignored.
`reporting_judge`	string	Optional magistrado ponente, by full name as it appears in `reporting_judges`. Case and accents are ignored.
`from_date`	string	Optional: only rulings handed down on or after this date, `yyyy-mm-dd`.
`to_date`	string	Optional: only rulings handed down on or before this date, `yyyy-mm-dd`.
`page`	integer	1-based page number. Default `1`.
`per_page`	integer	Results per page (1-50). Default `20`.

curl https://api.croma.run/co/corte-constitucional/rulings-search/v1 \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $CROMA_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{ "query": "mínimo vital", "type": "T" }'

Returns as_of (how current the data is), the applied filters, total (matches across every page), page, per_page, total_pages, count and results[], most recent ruling first. Every result carries id (the ruling’s number in canonical form, e.g. T-013/25), number (as the court prints it), relatoria_id, type and type_code (T, C, SU or A), year, ruling_date, publication_date, proceeding_type, chamber, registration_number (the expediente), reporting_judges[] and reporting_judge_keys[], subject, summary (the relatoría’s synopsis), decision (what the court decided), rights_invoked[], rights_protected[], lower_instances[], related_relatoria_ids[], updated_at and official_url (the ruling’s page on the court’s own site).

Search results leave out the ruling’s text: a single ruling can run to hundreds of thousands of characters. query still matches against it, so a phrase from the body finds the ruling; read the text itself with the Corte Constitucional Ruling endpoint.

One ruling, in full

POST /co/corte-constitucional/ruling/v1 Dataset

Field	Type	Notes
`ruling_id`	string	Required. The ruling’s number in any of the court’s notations (`T-013/25`, `SU.502/25`, `A. 006/25`, `T-013-25`), or the `relatoria_id` from a search result or from another ruling’s `related_relatoria_ids[]`.
`offset`	integer	First character of the text to return. Pass the previous response’s `next_offset` to read on. Default `0`.
`limit`	integer	How many characters of the text to return. Most rulings fit in one response; the longest run past a million characters. Default `200000`.

curl https://api.croma.run/co/corte-constitucional/ruling/v1 \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $CROMA_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{ "ruling_id": "T-013/25" }'

Returns as_of, found, ruling_id and ruling, which carries everything the search returns plus content: a window onto the ruling’s full text, with text, offset, total_length, has_more and next_offset. Every result carries id (the ruling’s number in canonical form, e.g. T-013/25), number (as the court prints it), relatoria_id, type and type_code (T, C, SU or A), year, ruling_date, publication_date, proceeding_type, chamber, registration_number (the expediente), reporting_judges[] and reporting_judge_keys[], subject, summary (the relatoría’s synopsis), decision (what the court decided), rights_invoked[], rights_protected[], lower_instances[], related_relatoria_ids[], updated_at and official_url (the ruling’s page on the court’s own site).

Long rulings run past a million characters, so the text is read a range at a time: send offset and limit, then pass the response’s next_offset back as offset until has_more is false.

A number the court has not published returns found: false with HTTP 200, not an error. The court publishes a ruling up to a year after handing it down, so a recent ruling can be found: false today and present next month.

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