Corte Suprema de Justicia

The Corte Suprema de Justicia de El Salvador publishes the jurisprudencia of the country’s courts: about 200,000 resolutions since 1951 from the Corte Plena, the Salas de lo Constitucional, Civil, Penal and Contencioso Administrativo, the second-instance Cámaras, the Tribunales de Sentencia and a set of Juzgados. Each one here comes with its full text, the reference number, the court, the area of law, the kind of proceeding and of resolution, the decision, the crimes in criminal matters, the headnotes the court’s documentation center wrote, the original document as the court published it, and links to the record and the document on the court’s own site. Search across all of them at once, by court or level of court, area of law, kind of proceeding or resolution, crime, reference number, year or date, or with free text that reaches into the body of every resolution. The same documentation center keeps El Salvador’s legislation: more than 10,000 legal texts published in the Diario Oficial since 1821, from the Constitution’s amendments, the codes and the laws to executive decrees, regulations, agreements and municipal ordinances. Each comes with its consolidated text, whether it is in force, every amendment with its act and its own text, the rulings related to it, and every version of its document: the court rewrites a consolidated text when it incorporates an amendment, and each version stays available here.

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 resolutions

POST /sv/csj-sv/rulings-search/v1 Dataset One search over the full text of every resolution since 1951, filtered by court, area of law, proceeding, kind of resolution, crime, reference number, year or date.

Field	Type	Notes
`query`	string	Optional words matched against the reference number, the court, the decision, the facts, the headnotes and the full text.
`court_type`	enum	Optional level of the court: `corte_plena`, `sala` (the Salas of the Corte Suprema), `camara` (the second-instance Cámaras), `tribunal_de_sentencia` or `juzgado`.
`court`	string	Optional court as `court` names it, e.g. `Sala de lo Constitucional` or `Cámara Segunda de lo Laboral`, matched from the start of the name. Case and accents are ignored.
`subject`	string	Optional area of law as `subject` names it: `Penal`, `Familia`, `Civil y Mercantil`, `Constitucional`, `Laboral`, `Medio Ambiente` and others, matched from the start. Case and accents are ignored.
`proceeding_type`	string	Optional kind of proceeding as `proceeding_type` names it, e.g. `Amparo`, `Hábeas corpus`, `Inconstitucionalidad`, matched from the start. Case and accents are ignored.
`type`	string	Optional kind of resolution as `type` names it, e.g. `Sentencias definitivas`, `Interlocutorias`, `Improcedencias`, matched from the start. Case and accents are ignored.
`crime`	string	Optional crime as it appears in `crimes`, e.g. `Homicidio agravado`, matched in full. Case and accents are ignored.
`registration_number`	string	Optional reference number (N°) as the court prints it, e.g. `49COMP2026` or `86-CAC-2026`. Returns every resolution of that reference. Case, spaces and punctuation are ignored.
`year`	integer	Optional year of the resolution. 0 searches every year. Default `0`.
`from_date`	string	Optional: only resolutions handed down on or after this date, `yyyy-mm-dd`.
`to_date`	string	Optional: only resolutions 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/sv/csj-sv/rulings-search/v1 \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $CROMA_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
        "query": "debido proceso",
        "court_type": "sala",
        "subject": "constitucional"
      }'

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 resolution first. Every result carries id (the resolution’s permanent number, e.g. 1138697), registration_number (the reference number, e.g. 49COMP2026), ruling_date, year, court_type (corte_plena, sala, camara, tribunal_de_sentencia or juzgado), court, subject (the area of law), proceeding_type, type (the kind of resolution), appeal_type, lawsuit_type, decision, facts, crimes, lower_courts, courts_in_conflict, challenged_act, rights_invoked, grounds, applied_law, other_fields, descriptors and extracts (the headnotes, each a topic with its holdings), text_status (ok, scanned or missing), official_url (the resolution’s record at the court), document_url (Croma’s copy of the original document, byte for byte as the court published it, which stays available whatever happens to the court’s link) and source_document_url (the document on the court’s own site). Fields the court’s record leaves empty are null or empty lists; party names are never included.

Search results leave out the text: a single resolution can run to hundreds of thousands of characters. query still matches against it, so a phrase from the body finds the resolution; read the text itself with the Corte Suprema de Justicia de El Salvador Ruling endpoint.

One resolution, in full

POST /sv/csj-sv/ruling/v1 Dataset

Field	Type	Notes
`ruling_id`	string	Required. The resolution’s `id` from a search result, e.g. `1138697`, or its `official_url`.
`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 resolutions fit in one response. Default `200000`.

curl https://api.croma.run/sv/csj-sv/ruling/v1 \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $CROMA_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{ "ruling_id": "1138697" }'

Returns as_of, found, ruling_id and ruling, which carries everything the search returns plus content: a window onto the resolution’s full text, with text, offset, total_length, has_more and next_offset. Every result carries id (the resolution’s permanent number, e.g. 1138697), registration_number (the reference number, e.g. 49COMP2026), ruling_date, year, court_type (corte_plena, sala, camara, tribunal_de_sentencia or juzgado), court, subject (the area of law), proceeding_type, type (the kind of resolution), appeal_type, lawsuit_type, decision, facts, crimes, lower_courts, courts_in_conflict, challenged_act, rights_invoked, grounds, applied_law, other_fields, descriptors and extracts (the headnotes, each a topic with its holdings), text_status (ok, scanned or missing), official_url (the resolution’s record at the court), document_url (Croma’s copy of the original document, byte for byte as the court published it, which stays available whatever happens to the court’s link) and source_document_url (the document on the court’s own site). Fields the court’s record leaves empty are null or empty lists; party names are never included.

Long resolutions are 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. content is null when text_status is scanned (the court published the resolution as an image) or missing; document_url still gives the original document when the court published one.

An id the court has not published returns found: false with HTTP 200, not an error.

Search the legislation

POST /sv/csj-sv/laws-search/v1 Dataset One search over the consolidated text of every legal text since 1821, filtered by kind, status, area of law, number, municipality, department, year or date.

Field	Type	Notes
`query`	string	Optional words matched against the name, the documentation center’s summary and the consolidated text.
`type`	string	Optional kind of document: `Decretos Legislativos`, `Decretos Ejecutivos`, `Decretos Institucionales`, `Acuerdos`, `Reglamentos`, `Ordenanzas Municipales` or `Documentos Generales`, matched from the start. Case and accents are ignored.
`status`	enum	Optional status: `vigente` (in force), `caducada` (expired) or `derogada` (repealed).
`subject`	string	Optional area of law, e.g. `Penal`, `Tributaria`, `Laboral`, matched from the start. Case and accents are ignored.
`number`	string	Optional decree or agreement number, e.g. `1030`. Case, spaces and punctuation are ignored.
`municipality`	string	Optional municipality of an ordinance, e.g. `San Salvador Centro`, matched from the start. Case and accents are ignored.
`department`	string	Optional department of an ordinance, e.g. `La Libertad`, matched from the start. Case and accents are ignored.
`year`	integer	Optional year of publication in the Diario Oficial. 0 searches every year. Default `0`.
`from_date`	string	Optional: only acts published on or after this date, `yyyy-mm-dd`.
`to_date`	string	Optional: only acts published 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/sv/csj-sv/laws-search/v1 \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $CROMA_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{ "query": "código penal", "status": "vigente" }'

Returns as_of, the applied filters, total, page, per_page, total_pages, count and results[], most recently published first. Every result carries id (the act’s permanent number, e.g. 558819), title, type (Decretos Legislativos, Decretos Ejecutivos, Decretos Institucionales, Acuerdos, Reglamentos, Ordenanzas Municipales or Documentos Generales), nature, number (the decree or agreement number), status (vigente, caducada or derogada), subject (the area of law), issuing_body, state_organ, municipality and department (ordinances), issue_date, publication_date (in the Diario Oficial), year, gazette_number, gazette_volume, considerations (the documentation center’s summary), reform_count, related_rulings (ids for the ruling endpoint), other_fields, text_status, official_url (the act’s record at the court), document_url (Croma’s copy of the current version of the document, byte for byte as the court published it), source_document_url (the document on the court’s own site) and document_modified_at.

Search results leave out the text, the amendments and the document’s versions; query still matches the text. Read them with the Corte Suprema de Justicia de El Salvador Law endpoint.

One legal text, in full

POST /sv/csj-sv/law/v1 Dataset

Field	Type	Notes
`law_id`	string	Required. The act’s `id` from a search result, e.g. `558819`, or its `official_url`.
`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. A long code takes several responses. Default `200000`.

curl https://api.croma.run/sv/csj-sv/law/v1 \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $CROMA_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{ "law_id": "558819" }'

Returns as_of, found, law_id and law, which carries everything the search returns plus reforms[] (each amendment in order: decree, decree_number, issuing_body, decree_date, publication_date, gazette_number, gazette_volume, and document_url with Croma’s copy of the amendment’s own text next to its source_document_url), document_versions[] (every version of the act’s document Croma has kept, oldest first, each with document_url, modified_at and bytes) and content: a window onto the consolidated text, with text, offset, total_length, has_more and next_offset. Every result carries id (the act’s permanent number, e.g. 558819), title, type (Decretos Legislativos, Decretos Ejecutivos, Decretos Institucionales, Acuerdos, Reglamentos, Ordenanzas Municipales or Documentos Generales), nature, number (the decree or agreement number), status (vigente, caducada or derogada), subject (the area of law), issuing_body, state_organ, municipality and department (ordinances), issue_date, publication_date (in the Diario Oficial), year, gazette_number, gazette_volume, considerations (the documentation center’s summary), reform_count, related_rulings (ids for the ruling endpoint), other_fields, text_status, official_url (the act’s record at the court), document_url (Croma’s copy of the current version of the document, byte for byte as the court published it), source_document_url (the document on the court’s own site) and document_modified_at.

The court rewrites a consolidated text when it incorporates an amendment. Croma keeps every version it has seen: document_url is the newest, document_versions lists them all.

An id the court has not published returns found: false with HTTP 200, not an error.

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Corte Suprema de Justicia

Search the resolutions

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​One resolution, in full

​Search the legislation

​One legal text, in full

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Search the resolutions

One resolution, in full

Search the legislation

One legal text, in full