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Use Exa Search for primary legal sources and government records alongside the commentary written about them.

Included

  • US court opinions, with full text, court, docket, and citation metadata
  • Granted US patents, with abstract, claims, description, inventors, and assignees
  • Statutes, regulations, and agency guidance
  • Sanctions lists and watchlists
  • Government contracts and procurement records
  • Census data and other public statistical records

Use it for

  • Case-law research and legal RAG
  • Regulatory and policy monitoring
  • Prior-art and freedom-to-operate searches
  • Compliance screening and due diligence
  • Public-sector market research

Example queries

Find case law

Describe the legal question and jurisdiction in plain language rather than a citation.

Search patents

Describe what the invention does, the way a claim would.

Screen against sanctions

Name the list and the entity class you are screening.

Research government spending

Name the buying agency or service category and the time window.

Pull public statistics

Name the dataset and geography.

Make a request

Get structured data with Exa Agent

For structured data that requires research across multiple sources, use an Exa Agent task run. Describe the jurisdictions, record types, criteria, and output fields you need, and Agent returns schema-validated results with citations.

Start an Agent task

Screen an entity across record types or trace a regulatory change through primary sources and coverage.
Last modified on September 15, 2026