Courts & Cases — User Guide

Overview

The left rail is your map. Everything is organised into three groups:

Getting started

1. Sign in with your Google account.
2. Set your jurisdiction from the selector in the top bar (defaults to India).
3. Hit New matter (top-left) or open Draft to create your first document.
4. Save anything useful to your Vault to build your firm's library.

Credits & billing

AI actions use credits. Your live balance sits in the bottom-left Credits panel, and the exact cost of an action is always shown before you run it.

• Generating a document, profiling a judge, summarising a judgment, and AI edits each cost a small number of credits.
• Searching — including Case Finder and autocomplete — is free.
• Browsing is free. AI actions can use credits; check your balance and transaction history before retrying a generation.
• New accounts start with free credits to try everything out.

Buying credits

Top up any time — there's no subscription required to keep working.

1. Click the Credits panel in the bottom-left of the app (or the ＋ on it) to open the Buy credits window.
2. Pick a credit pack or the Pro plan and you'll be taken to secure checkout.
3. Pay by UPI, card, or net-banking (via Instamojo). Credits are added to your balance the moment payment succeeds.

You can also buy from the Pricing page — the same packs are listed there.

Credit validity

Credits you buy never expire. They stay in your account until you spend them — there is no renewal, no monthly reset and no lapse date.

Free credits are different. The welcome bonus and any promotional credits we grant are valid for 60 days, and a further promotional grant renews that window for the bonus portion of your balance only.

• The Credits panel shows “Never expires” when your balance is all purchased credits, or e.g. “5 bonus expire in 23 days” when free credits are involved.
• Bonus credits are always spent first, so your purchased credits are the last thing to be used.
• If bonus credits do lapse, you'll see it noted in your account history.

AI Drafting

The Draft page turns a plain-language description of your matter into a court-ready document, grounded in real judgments.

1. Describe the facts in the box — as if briefing a senior. The more context, the better the draft.
2. Optionally link a client so the draft is filed under that matter.
3. Press ⌘↵ or Analyze matter. We ask a few quick clarifying questions (recommended answers are pre-selected) to sharpen the draft.
4. Pick the document type and language, then Generate.
5. Watch the pipeline work: extract issues → search the corpus → build arguments → draft.

You can draft any of these document types:

While you draft, the Research rail on the right keeps three tabs in sync: Precedents (the judgments we relied on, with match scores), Arguments (see below), and Issues (the legal questions identified).

When the draft is ready you can Copy it, Save to Vault, or Download .docx.

Refine with follow-ups. A composer stays docked beneath the draft — type an instruction like "make the prayer stronger" or "add a limitation point" and hit Send (or ⌘↵). The draft is revised in place, keeping everything you didn't ask to change. Keep iterating until it's right.

Drafting in your language

Before you generate, choose an output language from the picker next to the document-type selector. Drafts can be produced in English, Hindi, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Bengali, Gujarati, Malayalam, Punjabi, Odia, and Urdu.

Generated arguments

As your matter is analysed, we build the legal arguments for you. Open the Arguments tab in the Research rail to see each one laid out as:

• a clear proposition (the point being made),
• the reasoning applying it to your facts, and
• the supporting authorities — case titles, citations, and the relevant ratio.

These flow straight into the generated document, so your draft argues from real precedent.

Vault & document editor

Your Vault is your private library of saved drafts, opinions, and judgments. Click any document to open it in a full Google-Docs-style editor.

1. Edit freely — use the formatting toolbar for headings, bold/italic/underline, lists, and alignment.
2. Changes autosave as you type ("All changes saved" appears in the bar). ⌘S saves instantly.
3. Rename by clicking the title.
4. Select any passage to get the inline AI toolbar: ✦ Refine Simplify Expand Explain Ask AI… — rewrite, clarify, or ask for a custom change to just that selection.
5. Download .docx to file or share, or Copy the text.

Sharing documents with your team

Any Vault document can be shared with your team so colleagues can read and edit it together.

• Share a single document — open the document in the editor and click ⇲ Share in the toolbar. A panel shows your teams; toggle any team on to share it with all members.
• Share multiple documents at once — in the Vault library, click Select, tick the documents you want, then choose Share selected… and pick a team.
• Share your entire Vault — go to the Team page, select a team, and turn on Share my entire Vault. Every current and future document in your Vault is made available to teammates — no per-document action needed. Turning this off stops automatic sharing; individually shared documents remain shared until you unshare them.

Shared documents are marked with a Shared badge in your library. Teammates open them from the team's Shared Vault list and can edit them directly — all changes autosave and are visible to everyone.

AI draft review

Inside the Vault editor, click ✦ Review for an instant second opinion on the open document. You'll get:

• an overall quality score out of 10,
• a candid assessment,
• strengths, weaknesses, and concrete suggestions — each tied to what your draft actually says.

Use it to identify points for your own review before filing. It does not replace a qualified professional's review.

Find cases by facts

Inside Case Law, switch the search to By facts to search the available indexed judgment text by your fact pattern, not keywords. Describe what happened and get the closest precedents back, ranked by match.

1. Open Case Law and choose the By facts tab.
2. Describe the matter in plain language.
3. Optionally filter by court (Supreme Court / High Courts) and year range.
4. Hit Find precedents. Each result shows the court, year, a relevant excerpt, and a match score — click to open the full judgment in the same viewer.

Research

The Research page runs an end-to-end research workflow on a matter — surfacing the legal position, relevant authorities, and analysis in a single streamed report. Past runs are saved as sessions you can revisit.

Use Case Finder when you just want matching precedents fast; use Research when you want a fuller worked-through analysis.

Case Law

Case Law is your single home for finding and reading judgments. Toggle between two search modes at the top of the panel:

• By name — look up a specific judgment by case name or citation.
• By facts — find the closest precedents to your matter (see Find cases by facts).

Open any result to read the full judgment in the viewer:

• Search by case name or case number.
• Read the full text, section by section.
• View the original PDF from the source archive.
• See citations — cases this judgment cites, and (for Supreme Court matters) cases that cite it.
• Generate a concise AI summary — facts, issues, held, and significance.

Reading a judgment

Judgments with available text have a readable page you can open, link to, or share. Alongside the full text, a Case Snapshot panel pulls out the essentials so you can get your bearings before reading:

• Court and date decided, and the length of the judgment.
• The bench, where available — eligible judge names link to a public judge page. Missing metadata does not mean a judgment had no judge or bench.
• Acts & sections cited in the judgment — click any one to find other cases dealing with the same provision.
• Citations — the cases referred to in the judgment, each clickable to search for it.

From the same page you can jump to find similar cases by the judgment's own fact pattern, or start a draft built on it.

Where the corpus links a judgment to earlier or later orders in the same matter, a Case Journey panel shows the procedural history as a chain of court cards — lower court first, through to the judgment you're reading. Each link between cards is labelled with its review state: “Linked automatically · not yet reviewed” for a link the system detected on its own, or “Reviewed link” once a person has checked it — either way the underlying evidence is kept and can be inspected. A chain is shown only when its courts form one coherent line of proceedings; anything less certain is withheld rather than shown as procedural history.

Coverage & limitations

The indexed catalog includes Supreme Court and High Court records. A catalog record does not guarantee readable full text, an available PDF, an AI summary, or complete metadata. Coverage varies by court, year, source availability, and extraction quality.

• Court text and generated content: the original-judgment section contains extracted source text. Summaries, editorial notes, and draft documents are Courts & Cases generated content and require verification against the official judgment.
• Case journey: relationship information may be shown where processing has produced it. Coverage is incomplete — most judgments show no chain at all, and a chain that starts at a High Court or the Supreme Court may have earlier proceedings the corpus does not link. It is not a complete procedural history or a certification of a judgment's current legal status. Check the linked judgments and evidence; similar parties or subject matter do not establish an appeal.
• Citations: a matching title is a research lead. Verify the court, year, case number, reported citation, and relevant passage before relying on a match.
• Judges and dates: source records can omit these fields, and extracted values can contain errors. Do not infer missing facts from an AI summary or a related judgment.
• Freshness: imports and page updates run in batches. A newly published judgment or a metadata correction may take time to appear throughout the site.

Use Browse Courts, the judge directory, and statute pages as research entry points. Verify the applicable version of legislation against an official source. Read our methodology and editorial policy for context.

The Case Law Digest provides judgment-linked notes on this site. The blog is a separate editorial site. Publication of a note is distinct from the court's decision date.

Case Law Digest

The Case Law Digest is a free, curated feed of notable Supreme Court and High Court judgments, including selected older decisions. Each entry is a short editorial note — what happened, the key legal questions, how the court reasoned, and why it matters for practitioners.

• Curated, not a firehose — only genuinely notable judgments, not everything we index.
• Grounded in the source — every quotation is verbatim, and each note links back to the full judgment.
• Fresh — notes are generated and published in batches; publication dates are distinct from decision dates.

Each note follows the same layout. The headline names the case, the court, and the core holding. Underneath it:

• a one- or two-sentence holding,
• a case summary — case, court, citation, case number, decided date, and bench, plus the main issue and outcome,
• Ratio / rule laid down and Why this matters for lawyers, and
• Facts, Issues, Court's Reasoning, Key Takeaways, and — where there is something to say — Important Observations and What Remains Unresolved.

Short verbatim extracts are marked “From the judgment” so you can see at a glance what the court actually said versus what the note explains. Precedents the judgment relies on are listed with a treatment label — Relied upon, Followed, Distinguished, Overruled, or Referred to — and, along with cited Acts and sections, link through to that page only where it exists on the site. Every note links to the source judgment, and carries structured data so search engines can read the case details directly.

Before a note is published, its case name, court, decision date, bench, citation and case number are checked against the judgment text and the case record; a note whose court, date, or case name doesn't check out isn't published. See our editorial policy for the full list of checks.

It's open to everyone and needs no sign-in — browse it any time at /case-law-digest.

Judge Intelligence

Judge Intel profiles judges with available indexed judgments — know the bench before you walk in.

1. Search a judge by name (autocomplete suggests as you type).
2. Get a plain-language profile: how many indexed judgments match their name, the subjects they take up, the statutes they cite most, and how comparable matters were decided — every observation grounded in their actual judgments.

The profile also includes analytics charts:

• Year-wise judgments — their activity over time.
• Outcome distribution — how matters tend to be disposed.
• Subject breakdown — the mix of case types.
• Judges most cited and frequent advocates appearing before the bench.

Clients

Keep your clients and matters in one place. Add a client once, then link them when drafting so documents and context stay organised per matter. You can jump straight from a client into a new draft.

Reminders

Set reminders for hearings, filings, and follow-ups inside your workspace. Email and calendar delivery depend on configuration and permissions; do not assume a saved reminder has been delivered to either service. Keep an independent record of filing deadlines.

Team

Work as a firm: the Team area lets you bring colleagues into a shared workspace so your matters, drafts, and library live together.

1. Go to Team in the sidebar and click + New team to create a team for your firm or practice group.
2. Click + Invite to add colleagues by email — assign them as member, admin, or leave as the default member role. Colleagues must already have an account; adding their email grants team membership.
3. Admins and owners can remove members at any time.

Shared Vault

Each team has a Shared Vault section showing all documents shared with it.

• Open any shared document to read and edit it — changes are visible to the whole team.
• Share my entire Vault — the toggle at the top of the Shared Vault panel shares everything you have now and anything you draft later, automatically. Turning it off does not remove individual document shares.
• To share individual documents, use the ⇲ Share button inside the Vault editor (see Vault).
• Owners and admins can Unshare any explicitly shared document from this panel.

Power tips

• Command palette — ⌘K opens search-and-jump for any page or action.
• Jurisdiction selector — set it in the top bar; drafting and research adapt to it.
• Dark mode — toggle with the moon/sun icon in the top bar.
• New matter — the top-left button starts a fresh draft from anywhere.
• Credits panel — bottom-left, always shows your live balance.