The library
Not a subscription I pay for and quote at you. A copy of the case law of this state, on my own machine, that I can ask questions no search box will answer.
Measured on the live system, 7 September 2026
The Texas state slice runs across S.W., S.W.2d, S.W.3d, Tex. and Tex. Crim. App., and the federal slices are in with it: 247,158 Fifth Circuit and federal district decisions, which is what a bankruptcy brief leans on hardest. Cite 495 F.3d 191 and this library will tell you it is In re Katrina Canal Breaches Litigation, decided 2 August 2007 — or that there is no such decision — and it will check a quotation out of that opinion against the opinion.
But it is not all current to the same day, and that is the thing to know before you rely on it. Texas state courts through 4 September 2026 · the Fifth Circuit through 29 June 2026 · the Texas federal district and bankruptcy courts through 26 June 2026. Nothing is adding to the Fifth Circuit and the Texas federal district and bankruptcy courts, so those slices stop where the load left them. A citation to a Fifth Circuit decision handed down after 29 June 2026 is not in this library and cannot be checked at all — not the case, not the quotation, not the citation. It comes back grey, which is the one thing this system is built never to let you mistake for a clean bill. Whether those slices get a walk of their own is a decision this practice has not taken; until it does, 26 June 2026 is where the federal half ends.
And the map is traced from both ends now. The graph above counts a citation from one decision to another, and every slice in this library has had its own outbound citations read — Texas state, the Fifth Circuit and the federal district courts all cite into the map as well as being cited by it.
And there is no Supreme Court of the United States slice here at all. A U.S. citation resolves only where some decision in this library carries it as a parallel cite. This is the case law of Texas, in both its court systems — not the federal corpus, and the page will not call it one.
And the mark stays grey, never red, wherever this library cannot reach. Red would tell a lawyer that a correctly cited case does not exist, which is a worse answer than no answer.
The citation checker
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
The watch
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.
The library is live and searchable, the daily watch reads a citation graph of 4,196 edges, 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.
And here is the part most pages like this one leave out. The daily pass has run 54 times since 19 August 2026 and has added 342 new decisions to the library. It has raised no notices of its own in that time — the one above came from running the engine by hand. That is not the courts being quiet: the wiring is far earlier than it looks. 10 element bindings are in place across five motion templates — 13 rows, of which only 7 name a decision the watch can match on, the rest carrying a statute or a rule it cannot join — and every one of them sits in a single Texas court of appeals district. So there is very little for a new opinion to touch yet, and the machinery working is a different claim from the wiring being done. You should know which of those two you are being sold.
The catalog runs to 64 mechanisms, and that is deliberately not written above as a fraction. A mechanism holds several elements, so 10 over 64 would divide a count of one thing by a count of another — the sort of ratio that flatters a number by choosing its denominator. Nor are these bindings live client matters: they were seeded against motion templates on 19 August 2026.
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.
Send me the pleading and I will run it against all of it — the authority the other side is leaning on, and whether it says what they say it says.
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