The corpus
The whole of the law, read from the page.
Nine million opinions, the statutes section by section across the jurisdictions we practise in, and the equity treatises the modern doctrine descends from. Indexed to the paragraph and read in full before anything is cited, while your own matters stay on your machine.
9,427,210
Court opinions
Federal and state, in full text — the opinion itself, not a summary of it.
471,032
Statute sections, rules and constitutional provisions
The United States Code, eight state codes section by section, twelve constitutions, and the federal and state court rules.
2,300,000+
Doctrinal and equity passages
Indexed for retrieval across doctrine, the equity canon and the treatises.
123,321
Treatise paragraphs
Paragraph-level index over the foundational works, so a proposition resolves to a page and not a book.
Counted 12 September 2026.
How It Is Read
Read From the Page, Not From a Summary
Every volume is taken from the scanned original. A digest headnote is a map to a case, not the case — and a proposition that rests on a headnote dies the moment opposing counsel opens the reporter. So the opinion is opened and read through before a single line of it is relied on.
A Proposition Resolves to a Paragraph
123,321 treatise paragraphs are indexed individually, so an authority answers at the paragraph that actually holds it rather than at the spine of a book. A reader checking the work lands on the sentence, not on a volume to search.
Statutes Keep What Was Repealed
Repealed and expired sections are kept and marked, because the law that governed the conduct is not always the law in force today. A section is read as it stood on the date that matters to the matter in hand.
Coverage Is Stated, Never Rounded
Where a volume is held but not yet readable, the answer says so. Absence is reported as a finding only when the search demonstrably ran. An answer that could not look somewhere names the place it could not look.
How the Holdings Are Joined
A library is more than its count of books. What makes it usable for a filing is that every opinion knows which opinions it cites, every citation can be looked up at its volume and page, and the practice material is kept apart from the law.
77,481,570
Citation links between opinions
Each opinion is joined to the opinions it cites and to the later opinions that cite it. A case can be followed back to the authority it rests on and forward to the courts that have relied on it since, without leaving the record.
18,124,047
Reporter citations, across 989 reporters
A citation in a draft is looked up here first. It counts as verified only when the real case is found at that volume and page; a citation that resolves to nothing, or to a different case, is held back before it reaches a paper.
80,000
Contract provisions, across 100 provision types
Drawn from material contracts on public file with the Securities and Exchange Commission. They show how a clause is commonly written in practice. They are never cited as authority for what the law requires.
Links and citations counted 7 October 2026.
What an Authority Goes Through Before It Is Cited
Holding the law is the first half. The second is the order in which it is used, which is the same for a research answer, a draft and a paper going to a court.
Step 1
It Is Found
The citation is resolved against the reporter. It counts as verified only when the real case is found at that citation, and anything unconfirmed is held back.
Step 2
It Is Read
The opinion or section is opened in full. A proposition is taken from the text of the authority itself, never from a headnote, a digest line or a description of it.
Step 3
It Is Tied to a Passage
Each statement of law in the draft is bound to the specific passage that supports it. A statement with no passage behind it is narrowed or held back.
Step 4
Its Coverage Is Stated
The answer says what was searched and what could not be reached. Where no source was retrieved, it says so instead of filling the space.
The checks themselves, and what they have been measured to catch, are set out on the standard and the proof page.
The Foundational Shelf
Modern doctrine has ancestors, and an argument is stronger when it can name them. These are held whole and read from the scanned original.
- Bracton, De Legibus et Consuetudinibus Angliae
- Coke, Institutes of the Lawes of England
- Blackstone, Commentaries — all four volumes
- Story, Commentaries on Equity Jurisprudence
- Pomeroy, Equity Jurisprudence
- Black's Law Dictionary, 4th edition
- Bouvier's Law Dictionary, 1856
- Vattel, The Law of Nations · Grotius, De Jure Belli ac Pacis
Where Your Own Papers Sit
The corpus is public law: opinions, statutes, rules and treatises that anyone may read. Your matter file, your evidence and your drafts are not part of it. They are kept on your machine, and the library is brought to them.
A question to the assistant carries the context it needs to be answered, at the place the member chose: Gage cloud, their own server, or this computer only. Nothing in a matter file is added to the library.