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Loupe: free citation lookup MCP Server

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Loupe: free citation lookup is answering right now. Last checked moments ago. It exposes 2 tools.

Check if a US legal citation exists, names its case and has a valid pin cite; or find a case. Free.

Uptime history 37 days of history · worst day 99%
37 days agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
92 of 92 checks
2
Tools
read from the server
976 ms
Response time
average over 24h
open, no key
Access
streamable-http

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check Loupe: free citation lookup every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

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Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 0 min ago.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add citation-lookup --transport http https://loupe.legal/mcp-public
Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address
https://loupe.legal/mcp-public
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.citation-lookup]
url = "https://loupe.legal/mcp-public"
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "citation-lookup": {
      "url": "https://loupe.legal/mcp-public"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "citation-lookup": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://loupe.legal/mcp-public"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 2

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

cases
search_cases
Search the case names in Loupe's index, or look up the case a citation names. Give the parties' names, and the year if known. A case missing from the results may still exist.
citation
check_citation
Check one US legal citation, or a sentence holding a few: whether it exists in the sources Loupe checks, which case it is, and whether a pin cite falls inside the opinion. Give it exactly as written, with the case name and year if the document has them, because the commonest error is a real citation attached to the wrong case.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://loupe.legal/mcp-public streamable-http answering 747 ms 0 min ago

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Loupe: free citation lookup — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Loupe: free citation lookup do?
It exposes 2 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: check_citation, search_cases. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →
Is Loupe: free citation lookup working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 92 of 92 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 976 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect Loupe: free citation lookup?
Copy the ready config from this page. We generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each in the form that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.
Does Loupe: free citation lookup need an API key?
No. Loupe: free citation lookup completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 2 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is Loupe: free citation lookup?
It answers our handshake in 976 ms on average, which is faster than 7% of all working MCP servers we measure. That is on the slow side — worth knowing if the tool sits inside an interactive loop. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.