Citation Toolkit
Reference skill for legal citations — defines the citation-type taxonomy, short-form resolution rules, structured component schemas, flag vocabulary, and CourtListener API patterns used by other legal-tools skills (cite-checking, chain-cite, table-of-authorities). Read this before parsing citations, calling CourtListener, or emitting citation-related structured output in any other skill.
Table Of Authorities
Use when extracting citations from a legal brief to build a Table of Authorities - runs eyecite locally to extract and categorize all legal citations (cases, statutes, constitutional provisions, legislative materials, secondary sources) with short forms (Id., supra, reporter-only cites) already resolved, walks the document for gap categories eyecite does not catch (administrative decisions, popul…
Chain Cite
Use when the user wants to trace a single legal proposition backward through its citation graph to find the original source that first uttered it. Takes one proposition + one citation, walks backward hop by hop through CourtListener's opinion citations, annotates relationship (quoting / paraphrasing / holding) and semantic drift (broadens / narrows / rephrases) at each hop, and terminates when th…
Cite Checking
Use when verifying citations in a legal brief or document — extracts every citation locally via eyecite (document text never leaves the machine, important for privileged work product), looks up each source online via CourtListener and other public sources, extracts the pincite text, and produces a standalone report assessing how well each citation supports the proposition it is cited for, with a…