Syfert Legal Research
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Verify legal citations, case treatment, quotes and whole briefs against 10.7M U.S. opinions
Endpoint: https://mcp.syfert.com/mcp
Connect
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}Tools (13)
- check_briefAudit ALL citations in a draft brief, motion, or memo at once (wraps syfert.com Brief Check). Extracts every reporter citation, verifies each exists, checks the case name the document claims against …
- check_citationVerify a legal citation actually exists before using it. CASES: returns the real case at that citation, its treatment flag, and (if expected_case_name given) whether the name matches. This catches ha…
- find_courtResolve a court name to court_id values usable in the search_cases court filter. Also resolves whole GROUPS of courts (tribal courts, veterans, bankruptcy, all U.S. district courts) to the single agg…
- find_issuesENTRY BY ISSUE. Use this FIRST when the question arrives as facts or an issue rather than a case name ("can the appellate court affirm on a ground the trial court never reached", "impact rule emotion…
- find_related_casesExpand research from one good case: returns the doctrinal family it belongs to: the line of frequently co-cited cases around an anchor authority (curated set of ~1,500 major doctrinal lines; landmark…
- get_caseFetch one case: metadata, parallel citations, treatment flag, and full opinion text (paginated via offset/max_chars). Identify the case by cluster_id (from search_cases results) or by reporter citati…
- get_citing_casesFull citator list: every ranked case citing this one, with judge-written parentheticals (usable verbatim in a brief), verbatim quotes, pin cites, and the citing court's own Bluebook signal. Filter by…
- get_propositionsWhat is this case actually cited FOR? Returns the distinct legal propositions courts cite the case for (headnote-grade), each with its OWN treatment flag and counts. A case can be good law on one pro…
- get_statuteFetch the full current text of a statute, rule, or code section.
- get_treatmentIs this case still good law? Returns the Syfertize treatment flag (red = overruled/superseded, yellow = questioned/distinguished, green = followed, procedural = cert/rehearing denied) plus the citing…
- search_casesFull-text search over 10.7M U.S. court opinions (all states + federal, via syfert.com). Call this to find case law on a topic, locate a case by name, or find cases citing a statute. Query syntax: boo…
- search_quotesFind every case that has quoted a phrase. Phrase-matched search over 4.3M distinct passages quoted by two or more opinions, ranked by how many cases quote them. Use it to (a) find the true source of …
- search_statutesSearch statutes, COURT RULES and codes by citation or topic, for EVERY U.S. state plus federal. For a specific state, pass state="wi" (any two-letter code, all 50 states + DC) and a topic or section …
History
- 13 tools added: search_cases, get_case, check_citation, get_treatment, check_brief, get_propositions, get_citing_cases, find_related_cases, find_court, search_quotes, find_issues, search_statutes, get_statute
- Became working (was unverified)
- First seen in the registry (1.1.0)