count_statute_sections

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How many sections sit in a jurisdiction, corpus, code, title, chapter or part. **Cost**: 1 credit. A scope that matches nothing is refunded, because an empty answer here is usually a wrong filter rather than a finding. Use it to size a job before you run it. Walking a container with `/us/statutes/divisions` and hydrating what you find is cheap per call and adds up across 52 jurisdictions, so this is the call that tells you what you are about to spend before you spend it. **There is no `query` parameter, on purpose.** Search ranks over a bounded window, so "how many sections match this query" has no answer beyond the size of that window. This counts a SCOPE, which is exact. Pair the two: count the scope here, enumerate it with `/us/statutes/divisions`, then rank within it using `/us/statutes/search`. The figure counts SECTIONS. Long sections are stored as several passages and are counted once.