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Where your report comes from
Every fact in your report is a fact from the public record. Each one links to a page you can open and read for yourself. This is where it comes from and how you check it.
1. Where our information comes from
We use the same public legal databases your attorney can access — court opinion records, sentencing tables, official statutes. We read them at scale so you do not have to read 100,000 opinions yourself. The work we charge for is the reading and the organizing, not access to the data.
Here are the public records we pull from. Click any name to open the source and confirm it is real and public.
What we actually use
Every fact in your report comes from one of these public records. Click any source to land on the maintainer's site and confirm it exists.
- CourtListener (opens in new tab)Free Law Project (501(c)(3) nonprofit)
Every published federal and state court opinion, plus the dockets and citation links between them.
Coverage: Decades of opinions across federal courts and most state appellate courts. Trial-court orders depend on whether each court publishes online.
- Official state statute sites (opens in new tab)Each state's legislature (e.g. Online Sunshine for Florida)
Current statute text for every state — the words of the law as the legislature enacted them.
Coverage: Current and recent statutes. Historical versions vary by state. Statute text is authoritative; how courts apply it lives in the opinion record.
- U.S. Sentencing Commission (opens in new tab)United States Sentencing Commission (federal agency)
Federal sentencing tables, the Sentencing Guidelines manual, and the annual individual-offender datafiles.
Coverage: Federal cases only. State sentencing data lives in state-level publications, and varies by state. USSC is the federal corpus.
- JUSTFAIR judge-sentencing dataset (opens in new tab)QSIDE Institute (research nonprofit); PLOS One peer-reviewed
Roughly 595,000 federal sentencing decisions linked to the sentencing judge, fiscal years 2002 through 2018.
Coverage: Federal district-court sentencing only. Years after 2018 are not in JUSTFAIR; fresher patterns come from the USSC datafiles. State court sentencing is out of scope.
- Cornell Legal Information Institute (opens in new tab)Cornell Law School (LII)
Federal statutes (U.S. Code), the Federal Rules, and annotated cross-references between statute and case law.
Coverage: Federal corpus, with state-statute pointers. Free public-facing version of materials big-firm tools also index.
These are the public corpora your attorney can also pull. The work we charge for is the reading and the organizing — not access to the data.
How the four steps work
We follow the same four steps for every report. No magic. No secret source. Just public records, read and lined up for you.
We pull the public court records
We start with the public record for your state and court — the same opinions and tables your attorney can pull.
We keep the ones that match your charge
We filter down to the cases and statutes that fit your charge. The rest is set aside.
We organize the patterns
We line up the sentencing patterns, the judge tendencies, and the comparable cases so they sit side by side.
We hand you a cited report
Every number in the report links back to the record it came from. You click. You check. Your attorney checks.
2. Every claim carries a source you can click
Here is the rule we hold ourselves to: a fact with no link does not go in your report. If we cannot point to the public record that proves a number, we leave the number out. We never put a fact on the page without the link that backs it.
So every row in your report has a source next to it. The link opens the court opinion, the sentencing table, or the statute the fact came from. You can read the source yourself. You can hand the report to any attorney and they can check the same links in a few minutes.
That is what makes the report worth bringing to a meeting. A number your attorney can trace to a real court record is a number they can work with.
3. What the audit snapshot is
Every report we deliver carries a receipt. We call it the audit snapshot. It shows exactly where each fact came from and the day we pulled it.
The receipt is sealed when your report is built, and it never changes. It lists each public record we used, the date that record was current, and a link for every fact in the report. It is the proof, kept right next to the report, that the report is built from the public record and nothing else.
What the receipt holds
- The public records we used — by name, with a link to each one.
- The date each record was current, so you know how fresh it is.
- A clickable link for every fact in the report.
- The exact time your report was built.
You can share the receipt with any attorney. They can open it without a login and check the corpus version and every source link in under five minutes.
4. What we don’t do
Being clear about what we use means being just as clear about what we are not. We are not a law firm. We do not file anything in court for you. We do not tell you how your case will turn out. We say what the record shows; your attorney drives the strategy.
The full list is public. We put it where you can read it before you decide. What we don’t do →