Open source alternatives to Westlaw
One project on starwire does the same job. Ranked by how much of what Westlaw does each one covers, read from its README and website. Ties go to the most active.
What Westlaw does
- Search case lawcore
- Search statutes and regulationscore
- Citation checking
- Secondary sources and commentary
- Legal news
- AI-assisted research
- Document analysis
- Saved research folders
Each dot in the table is one job, in this order. Square dots are core jobs and count double. Full means yes, half means partly. "See the evidence" under a project shows the line behind each one. Coverage is what a project documents, not how well it works or how hard it is to move to. How we score this
| Project | Covers | Stars | Commits, 12 weeks | Last release | Closed vs opened | Setup | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 caseciteSelf-hosted RAG search and document analysis over legal case law |
Covers one part49% | 292 | None | Too few | Needs a server | Apache-2.0 | |
Covers 1 of 2 core jobs. Partly: Saved research folders. Not shown: Search statutes and regulations; Secondary sources and commentary; Legal news.See the evidence
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