The library — every Texas decision, checked

Measured on the live system, 19 August 2026

What is actually in it.

689,583

Texas opinions, complete and searchable

634,097

decisions, with their reporter citations resolved

512,263

citation links between them — the map

13 GB

of case law, indexed for full-text search

4,196

citation links already traced for the watch to fire on

8 of 8

citations in this site's own catalog resolved to the real opinion

And what is not in it

This is the Texas state slice — S.W., S.W.2d, S.W.3d, Tex. and Tex. Crim. App.. Fifth Circuit and federal district opinions are extracted and waiting to be loaded; that is 259,464 more decisions, and until they land this library cannot check a federal citation.

Which is why a federal citation in a brief is marked grey here and never red. Red would tell a lawyer that a correctly cited Fifth Circuit case does not exist, and that is a worse answer than no answer.

The citation checker

Every case cited. Every quotation. Checked.

Upload a brief — mine, or the other side's — and every citation in it comes back marked. The colours mean exactly one thing each, and one of them is a colour most tools do not have.

Summary judgment is proper only where the movant shows there is no genuine issue of material fact. Nixon v. Mr. Prop. Mgmt. Co., 690 S.W.2d 546, 548 (Tex. 1985). The nonmovant’s evidence is taken as true, and the court must “indulge every reasonable inference in the light most favorable to the nonmovant” — id. at 549. Accord Celotex Corp. v. Catrett, 477 U.S. 317 (1986). But see Hargrove v. Mid-Tex Bldg. Co., 812 S.W.2d 4451 (Tex. 1994).

Exists, and the passage is verbatim The case exists; the quotation is not what it says No such decision Outside this library — not checked, not doubted

The rule the whole thing turns on

Retrieving is not reading. Finding 582 S.W.2d 404 proves the case exists. It says nothing about whether it holds the proposition it is cited for. So nothing goes green here on retrieval alone — green requires a passage of at least forty characters confirmed to appear verbatim in the retrieved opinion.

Forty characters is the guard. Without a floor, the check is satisfied by “the court held”, and a test that anything passes is not a test.

Short forms are followed

A brief cites in full once and short-forms it forty times — and nearly every quotation is offered under a short form. Those are bound on volume and reporter, never on a party name, because a party name is prose and it repeats. Where two decisions could fit, it stays unbound and stays in the count rather than guessing.

Never binds forward · the pincite travels

And a third pass on the argument

Beyond “does it exist” and “is the quote real”: what counsel says the case stands for, compared against what the court actually decided. That is the pass that catches a real case, quoted accurately, cited for something it never held.

The one a citator cannot do

No mark is not a clean bill

The warning is unconditional and it is on every result. A citation with no mark on it was not cleared — it was not reached. Those are different facts and this system is built so a reader never has to guess which one they are looking at.

Said out loud, every time

The watch

When the law under your case moves.

Your claim rests on elements, and each element rests on authority. When a new opinion touches that authority, there are five different things that could mean — and they are not equally urgent. So they are ranked, and you hear about the top of the list.

1The Supreme Court of Texas has cited the authority your case rests onThe highest court in the state has just spoken about the rule your claim stands on.
2A court that binds your matter has cited that authorityNot persuasive. Binding — the court your case is in has to follow it.
3Another Texas court has cited that authorityPersuasive, and the other side will have read it too.
4A new opinion cites a case that cites your authorityOne step removed. This is the one a person reading advance sheets misses.
5Review is pending in a case from that line of authorityA ruling is coming that could reach your case. This tier has no feed wired yet.

Where this stands today, plainly

The library is live and searchable, 4,196 citation links between decisions are traced, and the ranking above is running code in the production database rather than a plan.

And it has fired. The elements of a Texas summary judgment motion, a temporary injunction, a TCPA dismissal and a Rule 91a motion are bound to the decisions they rest on — McConnell, Nixon, Timpte, Butnaru, Qwest, Lipsky, Sanchez. On 19 August 2026 a June 2026 opinion out of a Texas court of appeals cited McConnell, and the engine raised the notice you see above at tier three: another Texas court has cited the authority this element rests on.

What it said was that a citation happened, and it named both cases. It did not say the case was overruled, weakened, distinguished or still good law — a machine cannot know that, and the ones that claim to are selling you an editor’s guess. The reading is mine.