How it works
Case Law Sources is a research desk for verified quotations from court decisions — findings, conclusions, holdings, and settlements. Search the collection, collect citations on your desk, and follow each passage back to the official source.
Search and collect
Sign in and ask a question in plain language. Each result is a short, verified excerpt segmented along Rhetorical Contours™ — natural argument, evidence, and reasoning turns — with its case name, page, and an official source link. Keep searching — your questions and results stay on the desk so you can build a working list of authorities as you research.
Contour Reconstruction™
Use the arrows beside any citation for Contour Reconstruction™: read a little more before or after the quoted lines within the work's configured limits. Expanding north and south are independent: each direction has its own expand and undo controls.
Powered by RHETOR8™
Case Law Sources runs on the RHETOR8™ platform: Rhetorical Contours™ for segmentation, Contour Reconstruction™ for bounded context expansion, and cryptographic verification for every excerpt shown on your desk.
Your research desk
Deselect citations you do not need (they gray out but stay recoverable). Copy one citation at a time, or copy your selected citations at once — with or without your search questions attached.
Verified excerpts
Every quotation is checked against the signed corpus before it is shown. Source history on each citation shows where the passage came from, when it was ingested, and the cryptographic fingerprints used to verify it.
For clerks and courts
Court decisions are public records, and every excerpt links back to the official public source with its SHA-256 fingerprint so researchers can confirm findings, conclusions, and settlements for themselves. Approved clerks load new cases — by PDF upload or direct fetch from public court sites. RHETOR8™ Contour Reconstruction™ respects each work's configured limits and is not a substitute for the full opinion.