list_cases_citing_provision

Lists the Federal Court decisions that cite a Commonwealth Act, or one of its provisions, newest first. For up to three citing paragraphs of each decision it gives a snippet around the citation.

A judgment is not legislation. Where a response names a Commonwealth title, the title carries a status block saying whether the Federal Register records it as in force today; a title not in force has no Advisor link, only its Federal Register link.

Note: case law has its own scope, terms and limits, and your service must keep them.

Federal Court only. Advisor holds decisions of the Federal Court of Australia, cited FCA and FCAFC. It holds no other court's judgments, and no state or territory law.

What is held, and the gap. Decisions to 4 March 2025, from the Open Australian Legal Corpus, and decisions from 23 October 2026, from the Court's own published pages. Decisions between those dates are not held yet. A citation to one resolves to unresolved_in_corpus: the judgment is not held, which says nothing about whether it exists.

Reproduced unaltered, and attributed. Each answer carries attribution: "© Federal Court of Australia (Commonwealth of Australia). Reproduced unaltered under the Federal Court of Australia copyright licence." Keep it with any passage you show, and do not edit a quotation.

Not the official report. Each decision carries source_url, the Court's page. Where an authorised report exists, it governs.

How a passage was checked. anchor.label says how many independent sources a judgment's text comes from. Most decisions say "single source (OALC bootstrap; awaiting FCA Court HTML dual-source check)": no second source has been compared yet.

What a paragraph number rests on. paragraph_structure and paragraph_structure_note say it: the Court's own page (court_html), the judgment's own certificate of how many numbered paragraphs it has (certified), numbering found with no certificate to check it (numbering), a numbered list such as orders that is not paragraph numbering (unnumbered: the judgment is held as one block, 0), or no numbering at all (unsplit, disputed). Where Advisor cannot confirm that a judgment's last numbered paragraph is one paragraph, paragraph_not_confirmed says so.

Fact	Value
Tool	`list_cases_citing_provision`
Partner scope required	`caselaw:read`
Subscriber tier required	AI Pro
Accepts `as_at`	no

Parameters

Name	Type	Required	Default
`legislation_id`	string	yes
`section`	string	no	`null`
`court`	string	no	`null`
`date_from`	string	no	`null`
`date_to`	string	no	`null`
`limit`	integer	no	`25`
`offset`	integer	no	`0`
`cursor`	string	no	`null`

Request (list_cases_citing_provision with {"legislation_id":"C2004A00818","section":"180","limit":2})

Python SDK

import asyncio, os
from mcp import ClientSession
from mcp.client.streamable_http import streamablehttp_client

async def main():
    headers = {"Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['LAWATLAS_API_KEY']}"}
    async with streamablehttp_client("https://advisor.lawatlas.ai/api/mcp", headers=headers) as (read, write, _):
        async with ClientSession(read, write) as session:
            await session.initialize()
            result = await session.call_tool("list_cases_citing_provision", {
                "legislation_id": "C2004A00818",
                "section": "180",
                "limit": 2
            })
            print(result.content[0].text)

asyncio.run(main())

curl

curl -s https://advisor.lawatlas.ai/api/mcp \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $LAWATLAS_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Accept: application/json, text/event-stream" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"list_cases_citing_provision","arguments":{"legislation_id":"C2004A00818","section":"180","limit":2}}}'

Response, as Advisor returned it on 8 November 2026. The tool's result is the JSON text of result.content[0].text; lists and long text are trimmed where marked "...".

{
  "schema_version": "3.10",
  "result": [
    {
      "case_id": "13d580cf-4abe-4453-89da-e9a80cba58fe",
      "court": "FCA",
      "year": 2025,
      "number": 121,
      "neutral_citation": "[2025] FCA 121",
      "citation_aglc": "*Australian Securities and Investments Commission v Hawkins* [2025] FCA 121",
      "case_name": "Australian Securities and Investments Commission v Hawkins",
      "decision_date": "2025-02-24",
      "judges": [
        "Stewart J"
      ],
      "npa": null,
      "text_quality": "oalc",
      "verification_state": "single_source_oalc",
      "source_url": "https://www.judgments.fedcourt.gov.au/judgments/Judgments/fca/single/2025/2025fca0121/2025fca0121",
      "advisor_url": "/c/FCA/2025/121",
      "citing_paragraphs": [
        {
          "para_num": 0,
          "cited_as_aglc": "*Corporations Act 2001* (Cth) s 180(1)",
          "pinpoint_raw": "s 180(1)",
          "snippet": "Federal Court of Australia\nAustralian Securities and Investments Commission v Hawkins [2025] FCA 121\nFile number:\n\nJudgment of: STEWART J\n\nDate of judgment: 24 February 2025\n\nCatchwords: CORPORATIONS – officer's duties under s 180(1) of the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth) – civil penalties – disqualification from managing corporations – where ASIC commenced civil penalty proceedings against eleven members of the executive team and board of the Star Entertainment Group Ltd in respect of alleged contraventions in the course",
          "snippet_start": 0,
          "paragraph_chars": 184159,
          "snippet_is_whole_paragraph": false,
          "citation_located": true,
          "content_hash": "a4a5dea5e39e97a915c51321c9db8d172f411670fe5cc3b5d8291ff912243149",
          "advisor_url": "/c/FCA/2025/121/0"
        }
      ],
      "resolution_status": "resolved"
    },
    {
      "case_id": "5d419a21-237b-4d40-827d-9f0835dfea7d",
      "court": "FCA",
      "year": 2025,
      "number": 96,
      "neutral_citation": "[2025] FCA 96",
      "citation_aglc": "*Fortrend Securities Pty Ltd v Wollermann (No 2)* [2025] FCA 96",
      "case_name": "Fortrend Securities Pty Ltd v Wollermann (No 2)",
      "decision_date": "2025-02-21",
      "judges": [
        "O'Callaghan J"
      ],
      "npa": "Commercial and Corporations",
      "text_quality": "oalc",
      "verification_state": "single_source_oalc",
      "source_url": "https://www.judgments.fedcourt.gov.au/judgments/Judgments/fca/single/2025/2025fca0096/2025fca0096",
      "advisor_url": "/c/FCA/2025/96",
      "citing_paragraphs": [
        {
          "para_num": 0,
          "cited_as_aglc": "*Corporations Act 2001* (Cth) s 180(1)",
          "pinpoint_raw": "ss 180(1)",
          "snippet": "mployer – whether respondents breached the employment contract or used confidential information to solicit former clients – whether new employer liable as an accessory or for inducing breach of contract – proceeding dismissed\n\nLegislation: Corporations Act 2001 (Cth) ss 180(1), 181(1), 182(1) and 183(1)\n Evidence Act 1995 (Cth) ss 48(4)(b), 87(1)(a) and cl 5 of pt 2 of the Dictionary\n\n Del Casale v Artedomus (Aust) Pty Ltd [2007] NSWCA 172\n IF Asia Pacific Pty Ltd v Galbally [2003] VSC 192; (2003) 59 IPR 43\n Lib",
          "snippet_start": 372,
          "paragraph_chars": 2577,
          "snippet_is_whole_paragraph": false,
          "citation_located": true,
          "content_hash": "d47100c1e3c8227d4138113e774b32bc73bbd1b9ea4cf32d27c85a787aaddb10",
          "advisor_url": "/c/FCA/2025/96/0"
        }
      ],
      "resolution_status": "resolved"
    }
  ],
  "page": {
    "returned": 2,
    "total": 130,
    "next_cursor": "eyJvIjogMn0=",
    "truncated": false,
    "limit_requested": 2,
    "limit_applied": 2
  },
  "legislation_id": "8d10b297-598e-4127-88ae-d7411655afe1",
  "frl_title_id": "C2004A00818",
  "title": "Corporations Act 2001",
  "status": {
    "in_force": true,
    "frl_status": "InForce",
    "since": null,
    "confirmed_with_frl_at": "2026-11-02T17:26:23.541914Z",
    "frl_link": "https://www.legislation.gov.au/Details/C2026C00432",
    "notice": "In force according to the Federal Register of Legislation, as last confirmed on the date shown.",
    "compilation": {
      "register_id": "C2026C00432",
      "compilation_no": 149,
      "check_date": "2026-11-07T17:25:09.705759Z",
      "state": "current",
      "notice": "The Federal Register listed this compilation as the current one on the check date."
    }
  },
  "section": "180",
  "resolved_component": "main",
  "resolved_eid": "sec_180",
  "attribution": "© Federal Court of Australia (Commonwealth of Australia). Reproduced unaltered under the Federal Court of Australia copyright licence.",
  "usage": "Cases citing this title or provision. Call get_judgment_paragraphs to read full paragraph context before quoting."
}

Notes

Name the Act by its frl_title_id (for example C2004A00818), its title, or a legislation UUID, and the provision with section (180 or s 180(1)).
A snippet is a locator, not a quotation. It is a window of the paragraph around the citation; snippet_is_whole_paragraph says whether it is the whole paragraph. Read the paragraph with get_judgment_paragraphs before quoting it.
Paging. limit is capped at 46 decisions; page.total is the number of citing decisions. Pass page.next_cursor back as cursor, or use offset.
Only citations Advisor found. A decision appears where Advisor read a citation to the Act in its text and matched it to the Act. A citation written in a way Advisor does not read is not counted.