About this tool

The first page went up in 2010. A single Florida statute, obtained via wget, edited via sed commands typed in vi. Most everything since has been built on weekends.

The site now holds the Florida Statutes, every Florida rule set (civil, criminal, appellate, juvenile, probate, family, small claims, traffic, judicial administration, and ethics), the Official Code of Georgia, and roughly 10.7 million American court opinions. Federal and state. Going back to the nineteenth century.

Every case carries a flag, colored by how later courts have treated it: red, yellow, or green. Hover to see the strongest negative cite. Click to read it.

The search bar tries to guess what you meant. A reporter citation goes to the case. A statute number goes to the statute. A rule number goes to the rule. A party name does the obvious thing. If you do not yet know what you meant, type the rough version and pick from the list.

Every case page hands you the Bluebook citation, ready to paste. Every Florida statute and OCGA section is followed by the cases that have applied it, sorted by treatment and by court.

Brief Check accepts pasted text: a brief, a motion, anything with citations. It returns a color-coded report. It flags overruled authority. It flags citations whose case name does not match the reporter. It flags quoted passages that do not appear in the opinion. The last two catch a particular kind of mistake that has become common since 2023.

The Hot list shows modern cases that have caught on in the last five years. The Trending list does the same idea over twenty-five. The Doctrinal Family pages cluster cases that have spent careers being cited together, so a single click puts you in the right neighborhood.

There is also a Jury Selection tool, and a small utility called Citation Analytics that breaks a case down by who has pinpointed which page.

No signup. No paywall. No usage cap. No advertising on the research pages.

Built and maintained by Graham W. Syfert, a Jacksonville attorney. For his law practice (personal injury, workers’ compensation), see grahamsyfert.com.

If something is broken, missing, or wrong, the easiest way to flag it is by email through the address listed at grahamsyfert.com/about-graham.html.

Terms

This website is free. That is the most important thing about it.

Everything here is offered as it is, without warranty, without promises, and without any particular regard for accuracy. I built a machine that reads millions of court opinions, and machines make mistakes, and so do I. A citation can be wrong. A treatment flag can be wrong. A quotation can belong to a different case than the one standing next to it. Check everything before you rely on it. If you do not check it, that was your decision, not mine.

I am a lawyer. I am not your lawyer. Nothing here is legal advice, and using this site does not make me your lawyer, however much it may have helped. If you need advice, hire someone. Ideally hire someone after you have confirmed that they, and the cases they cite, actually exist.

Now, your material. When you search, I keep a log of what you searched. When you paste a brief into the citation checker, that text may be held for up to thirty days so I can run this place and repair it when it breaks. I can see all of it. I do not sell any of it. But this is a website kept by one person, not a bank vault, so do not paste anything you could not bear to lose.

If the site is wrong, or slow, or down, or if it costs you a case, a client, or a good night’s sleep, I am sorry, and I owe you nothing, because it was free. That was the arrangement from the first line.

Florida law governs all of this, for whatever that turns out to be worth.