European Court of Human Rights decisions from the HUDOC database. Judgments and admissibility decisions. Year-by-year from 1959, with automatic splitting for high-volume years. Parallel downloads (32 workers).
Status: active
| Key |
Kind |
Origin |
Auth |
Update
|
echr |
decision |
HUDOC search API — hudoc.echr.coe.int/app/query/results |
none |
incremental (year-by-year)
|
ID format: eu.echr_{itemid}:{language} (e.g. eu.echr_001-12345:fr)
Coverage: 1959–present
| Tag |
Values |
Notes
|
type |
judgment |
always (both judgments and decisions)
|
nature |
ARRÊT (JUDGMENTS collection) or DÉCISION (DECISIONS collection) |
|
document_form |
canonical_text, dissenting_opinion, concurring_opinion, separate_opinion |
detected via docname regex
|
court |
echr |
always
|
court_level |
supranational |
always
|
official_grade |
→ importance_level |
Meaning
|
1 |
highest_importance |
Key case (ECHR Reports)
|
2 |
high_importance |
High importance
|
3 |
medium_importance |
Medium importance
|
4 |
low_importance |
Low importance
|
formation_solemnity |
Criteria
|
grand_bench |
"Grande chambre" in chamber label
|
standard_bench |
section/chamber (not committee, not grand)
|
reduced_bench |
"Comité" or "(comité)" in label
|
Chamber label derived from originatingbody (section ID) and doctypebranch. 5 sections (Première–Cinquième) with optional committee qualifier.
| Tag |
Notes
|
respondent_state |
defendant country (e.g. "FRA")
|
has_separate_opinion |
"true" or "false"
|
echr_branch |
admissibility, admissibility_committee, grand_chamber_decision (when applicable)
|
chamber |
full chamber label in French
|
solution |
conclusion field from HUDOC
|
summary |
headnote extracted from bordered CSS box in HTML
|
ecli |
ECLI string
|
case_number |
application numbers (split by ";")
|
translation_pending |
target language code when no sibling found
|
kind |
Direction |
Trigger
|
language_variant |
EN ↔ FR |
post-ingest LLM translation enrichment
|
| Source |
Relationship
|
| cjeu |
Separate court system (Council of Europe vs EU). Different grade system, different formation model.
|
- Only
language="fr" ingested — multi-language support planned
needs_review: "echr_chamber_unmapped" when neither branch nor body resolved to known mapping- No citation edges between ECHR decisions
- Formation solemnity not available for single-judge decisions (no
single_judge value set)