CourtListener for ChatGPT: Plugin, Example Prompts & Reviews

Example prompts

3 from the official listing

CourtListener What have federal appeals courts held about qualified immunity for school officials?
CourtListener Is Varghese v. China Southern Airlines Co., 925 F.3d 1339 (11th Cir. 2019), a real case?
CourtListener Alert me to new filings in the Google ad tech case.

Mention CourtListener by name in your message, as the official examples do.

How to use CourtListener in ChatGPT

Open CourtListener in ChatGPT’s plugin directory

Open CourtListener’s page on chatgpt.com. Sign in to ChatGPT if you are not already.
Install it from that page

Choose Install plugin there. It adds the CourtListener app to ChatGPT.
Mention CourtListener in a chat

Start a new chat and name it in your request, for example: “CourtListener, what have federal appeals courts held about qualified immunity for school officials?”

Availability can depend on your ChatGPT plan, your region and, on work accounts, your admin’s settings.

What CourtListener does

Connect to CourtListener, the Free Law Project's legal research platform, with access to millions of U.S. court opinions, PACER dockets, judge profiles, oral arguments, and citation data. Search case law across federal and state courts, retrieve full case metadata, extract and verify legal citations against a canonical database, and set up alerts for new opinions or docket updates. Built and operated by Free Law Project, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to making the law broadly accessible. Suited for attorneys, legal researchers, journalists, academics, and pro se litigants who need fast, reliable access to primary legal sources.

From the official listing, written by Free Law Project.

What CourtListener can access

The official listing names no Read or Write capability for CourtListener. Check what it asks for when you add it, and connect only the accounts you want it to use.

Before you connect it

OpenAI’s plugin pages note that a connected plugin may receive relevant parts of your chats to answer a request, and that Free Law Project’s own terms and privacy policy then cover that data. You can disconnect a plugin later in ChatGPT’s settings. Read the privacy policy (wiki.free.law) and terms (wiki.free.law).

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CourtListener in ChatGPT: questions and answers

What does CourtListener do in ChatGPT?

Connect to CourtListener, the Free Law Project's legal research platform, with access to millions of U.S. court opinions, PACER dockets, judge profiles, oral arguments, and citation data.

What can I ask CourtListener in ChatGPT?

The official listing suggests prompts like: “What have federal appeals courts held about qualified immunity for school officials?”; “Is Varghese v. China Southern Airlines Co., 925 F.3d 1339 (11th Cir. 2019), a real case?”; “Alert me to new filings in the Google ad tech case”.

How do I use CourtListener in ChatGPT?

Open CourtListener’s page in ChatGPT’s plugin directory on chatgpt.com and install it there. Then mention CourtListener in a chat, for example: “What have federal appeals courts held about qualified immunity for school officials?”.

Who makes the CourtListener plugin?

Free Law Project, currently at version 1.2.0. Best GPT Apps is an independent directory and is not affiliated with OpenAI or Free Law Project.

Is CourtListener one of the old ChatGPT plugins from 2023?

No. The 2023 ChatGPT plugins were a separate beta that OpenAI has since retired. Today’s ChatGPT plugins are the apps directory under a new name: since July 2026 a plugin can bundle apps, skills and MCP servers.