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Audit ALL citations in a draft brief, motion, or memo at once (wraps syfert.com Brief Check). Extracts every reporter citation, verifies each exists, checks the case name the docum

Verify a legal citation actually exists before using it. CASES: returns the real case at that citation, its treatment flag, and (if expected_case_name given) whether the name match

Optional. If your client can save files locally and you want a readable copy of a case or statute, this returns the complete document to save; otherwise use get_case / get_statute

Find the case to cite for a proposition. Paste the proposition or the language you need authority for VERBATIM; do not convert it to keywords. The result names the source case to c

Fast direct lookup: give a citation or a case caption and get THE case (or 'not decisive' with up to 5 candidates) without a full-text search. Use search_cases for topics and words

Resolve a court name to court_id values usable in the search_cases court filter. Also resolves whole GROUPS of courts (tribal courts, veterans, bankruptcy, all U.S. district courts

ENTRY BY ISSUE. Use this FIRST when the question arrives as facts or an issue rather than a case name ("can the appellate court affirm on a ground the trial court never reached", "

Expand research from one good case: returns the doctrinal family it belongs to: the line of frequently co-cited cases around an anchor authority (curated set of ~1,500 major doctri

Fetch one case: metadata, parallel citations, treatment flag, and full opinion text (paginated via offset/max_chars). cited_by is CourtListener's citation count; for a decision fil

Full citator list: every ranked case citing this one, with judge-written parentheticals (usable verbatim in a brief), verbatim quotes, pin cites, and the citing court's own Blueboo

What is this case actually cited FOR? Returns the distinct legal propositions courts cite the case for (headnote-grade), each with its OWN treatment flag and counts. A case can be

Fetch the full text of a statute, rule, or code section: the current codification in the edition this corpus holds. Every answer carries currency (edition, current_through, current

Is this case still good law? Returns the Syfertize treatment flag (red = overruled/superseded, yellow = questioned/distinguished, green = followed, procedural = cert/rehearing deni

Full-text search over 10.7M U.S. court opinions (all states + federal, via syfert.com). Call this to find case law on a topic, locate a case by name, or find cases citing a statute

Find every case that has quoted a phrase. Phrase-matched search over 4.3M distinct passages quoted by two or more opinions, ranked by how many cases quote them. Use it to (a) find

Search statutes, COURT RULES and codes by citation or topic, for EVERY U.S. state plus federal. For a specific state, pass state="wi" (any two-letter code, all 50 states + DC) and

Crowdsourced AI feedback on a Syfertize treatment flag. When the evidence in front of you (an overruling, abrogating or reinstating opinion, or a later court holding the case is st

Check one quotation against the full text of the opinion it is attributed to, before it goes in quotation marks. Returns verdict (verbatim | near | absent), percent, best_match (th