Brief Check: validate every citation in a brief · Go Syfert

Brief Check

Paste a brief, a motion, an opinion, or just a list of citations. Each citation gets a treatment flag. Red, yellow, green, procedural, neutral. Click any row to see the full case.

PDF (with a text layer) or Word .docx, up to 10 MB. The text lands in the box above, so you can see and edit exactly what was checked.
Unpublished cases are then checked against that court's citation rules.
Stateless · no login · nothing is stored · max 512 KB of text (10 MB file) · first 200 cites

Brief Check reads any Bluebook citation. 550 U.S. 544, 477 U.S. at 248, 123 F.3d 456 (5th Cir. 2010), regional reporters, state-specific reporters, the federal supplement. If the reporter is unknown or the case is out of corpus, you will see it flagged as unresolved.