The corpus
The whole of the law, read from the page.
Nine million opinions, the Michigan statutes section by section, and the equity treatises the modern doctrine descends from — held locally, indexed to the paragraph, and read in full before anything is cited from them.
9,375,610
Court opinions
Federal and state, full text, from the CourtListener bulk record.
35,892
Michigan statute sections
Across 292 chapters; 35,314 currently in force, with repealed and expired sections kept and marked.
2,300,000+
Doctrinal and equity passages
Indexed for retrieval across doctrine, equity canon, treatise and ecclesiastical-trust collections.
123,321
Treatise paragraphs
Paragraph-level index over the foundational works, so a proposition resolves to a page and not a book.
Measured 8 September 2026 by law-inventory --scorecard — a run-time count, not a stored figure.
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.
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.
Statutes keep what was repealed
Of 35,892 Michigan sections, 35,314 are in force. The repealed and expired ones are kept and marked, because the law that governed the conduct is not always the law in force today.
The gaps are measured, not hidden
The same run that produced these figures also produced the defect list behind them. What is unsearchable, unindexed or degraded is counted and published rather than rounded away.
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
Topic index
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