Judicial interpretation

What it does

get_interpretation retrieves the most recent court decisions citing a given Slovak legislation provision — useful for seeing how a paragraf has actually been interpreted and applied by the courts.

Like every tool in this connector, it is read-only, covers Slovak law only, and its output is informational, not legal advice.

Inputs

Returns

{
  "regulation_number": "...",
  "section": "...",
  "paragraph": "...",
  "offset": 0,
  "limit": 20,
  "truncated": true,
  "next_offset": 20,
  "citing_decisions": [
    {
      "document_content_id": "...",
      "case_file_number": "...",
      "release_date": "...",
      "ecli": "...",
      "courts": "...",
      "areas": "..."
    }
  ]
}

truncated: true means more citing decisions exist beyond this page — treat the list as partial and never infer that a decision is absent from the corpus; continue with offset: next_offset. ecli is null when the corpus holds no ECLI for the decision (never an empty string); case_file_number is always present and is the anchor to verify against.

Outcome distribution (outcomes: true)

With outcomes: true the result additionally carries outcomes — how courts decide the provision, computed over all citing decisions (not just the page), and the text content opens with a Slovak card in this shape:

Žilina, 513/1991 § 560 — 29 citujúcich rozhodnutí (2019–2026), z toho 23 s vyhodnoteným výsledkom sporu. Žalobca úspešný v 65 % (n = 23) · čiastočne 9 % · žalovaný 26 % · nikto 0 %. Podľa zastúpenia žalobcu: so zástupcom 86 % (n = 14) · bez zástupcu — nedostatok dát pre spoľahlivý záver · … Rozpad na senát sa neponúka — K35.

{
  "outcomes": {
    "court": "Žilina",
    "n_citing": 29,
    "n_total": 23,
    "n_default_judgments_excluded": 2,
    "n_without_outcome": 4,
    "period": { "from_year": 2019, "to_year": 2026 },
    "served": true,
    "overall": { "label": "spolu", "served": true, "n": 23, "counts": { "navrhovatel": 15, "odporca": 6, "ciastocny": 2, "ziadny": 0 }, "message": null },
    "splits": [
      { "split": "zastupenie_zalobcu", "title": "Podľa zastúpenia žalobcu", "cells": [
        { "label": "so zástupcom", "served": true, "n": 14, "counts": { "...": 0 }, "message": null },
        { "label": "bez zástupcu", "served": false, "n": null, "counts": null, "message": "nedostatok dát pre spoľahlivý záver" }
      ] }
    ],
    "notice": "Rozpad na senát sa neponúka — K35."
  }
}

• The primary axis is the case, not the forum: splits by the claimant's legal representation, instance, procedure type and claim-size band (< 2 000 €, 2 000 – 10 000 €, > 10 000 €). Evidence posture and a pre-action written notice are not in the extraction schema and are therefore not offered.
• Two gates, per cell. A cell is served only when it holds at least 10 decisions (provisional) and those decisions span at least 3 distinct súdne oddelenia (counted from the sp. zn. prefixes). A cell failing either gate reads exactly nedostatok dát pre spoľahlivý záver with no n — and it never says which gate closed.
• The court is the finest axis. court is a filter you choose; no breakdown by senát, oddelenie or judge exists in any field, by construction (K35).
• Every served number carries its n. Percentages in the card are derived from counts and n; the structured payload carries counts only.
• Default judgments (rozsudky pre zmeškanie) are excluded from the base and reported in n_default_judgments_excluded; citing decisions with no outcome extract, or whose procedure has no prevailing party (mimosporové), are reported in n_without_outcome.

Example

Useful when the calling AI wants to answer a question like "how have courts applied § 63 of the Labour Code?" — it calls get_interpretation with regulation_number: "311/2001 Z. z." and section: "63", and gets back the most recent decisions citing that provision, each identified by its document_content_id and case_file_number (and ecli where the corpus holds one).

Notes

• Deterministic — debits your monthly corpus quota (see Usage limits).
• Does not return interpretive maxims (R-vety) in this version.
• Does not issue a provenance receipt, so its results cannot be passed to Verify answer's receipts input.