Get the sections around this one
curl --request GET \
--url https://api.vaquill.ai/api/v1/statutes/section/{act_id}/related \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>'import requests
url = "https://api.vaquill.ai/api/v1/statutes/section/{act_id}/related"
headers = {"Authorization": "Bearer <token>"}
response = requests.get(url, headers=headers)
print(response.text)const options = {method: 'GET', headers: {Authorization: 'Bearer <token>'}};
fetch('https://api.vaquill.ai/api/v1/statutes/section/{act_id}/related', options)
.then(res => res.json())
.then(res => console.log(res))
.catch(err => console.error(err));package main
import (
"fmt"
"net/http"
"io"
)
func main() {
url := "https://api.vaquill.ai/api/v1/statutes/section/{act_id}/related"
req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", url, nil)
req.Header.Add("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
defer res.Body.Close()
body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)
fmt.Println(string(body))
}{
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The sections immediately before and after a given section, in statutory order.
Cost: 2 credits. Not-found and failed lookups are not charged.
Reading one section rarely settles a question — the definitions sit a few sections back and the exceptions a few forward. Search cannot answer “what comes next”, because relevance ranking is not statutory order.
Neighbours never cross the containing chapter (or, where a section has no chapter, the containing title or state code), so you get the sections a reader would actually turn to, not the numerically adjacent row from an unrelated part of the corpus.
Ordering is natural, not lexicographic: 9 before 10, 240.9 before
240.10, 1983 before 1983a.
GET
/
api
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v1
/
statutes
/
section
/
{act_id}
/
related
Get the sections around this one
curl --request GET \
--url https://api.vaquill.ai/api/v1/statutes/section/{act_id}/related \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>'import requests
url = "https://api.vaquill.ai/api/v1/statutes/section/{act_id}/related"
headers = {"Authorization": "Bearer <token>"}
response = requests.get(url, headers=headers)
print(response.text)const options = {method: 'GET', headers: {Authorization: 'Bearer <token>'}};
fetch('https://api.vaquill.ai/api/v1/statutes/section/{act_id}/related', options)
.then(res => res.json())
.then(res => console.log(res))
.catch(err => console.error(err));package main
import (
"fmt"
"net/http"
"io"
)
func main() {
url := "https://api.vaquill.ai/api/v1/statutes/section/{act_id}/related"
req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", url, nil)
req.Header.Add("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
defer res.Body.Close()
body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)
fmt.Println(string(body))
}{
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API key issued from the Vaquill developer dashboard. Pass as Authorization: Bearer vq_key_...
Path Parameters
Section identifier. Encodes the citation's hierarchy: USC_T42_C21_S1983 is Title 42, Chapter 21, Section 1983, the section a lawyer writes as 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Take it from a /statutes/search result rather than assembling it: the title and section are derivable from a citation, but the CHAPTER is not, so hand-built ids usually 404.
Required string length:
3 - 200Example:
"USC_T42_C21_S1983"
Query Parameters
How many sections to return on EACH side.
Required range:
1 <= x <= 10Example:
3
Response
The section plus its neighbours.
Response for GET /statutes/section/{act_id}/related.
The section you asked about.
Show child attributes
Show child attributes
Sections immediately BEFORE this one in the same container, nearest last.
Show child attributes
Show child attributes
Sections immediately AFTER this one, nearest first.
Show child attributes
Show child attributes
Human label for the grouping the neighbours were drawn from, e.g. the chapter name. Neighbours never cross this boundary.
Server-side time for this request in milliseconds, excluding network transit. Useful for spotting a slow query; not billed on.
Example:
240.5
Credits actually charged for this call. Read it rather than assuming the list price: failed and refunded work bills 0, and batch endpoints charge per item returned, so a partial result costs less than a full one.
Example:
4
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