Frequently asked questions

One legal question — for example, whether a particular use of force was clearly established as excessive in the Ninth Circuit. Supporting facts, elements of the same issue and your desired position are all part of one topic. Two unrelated questions (say, excessive force and a separate state-law negligence claim) are two topics. Before you pay, an automatic scope check reads your request and asks you to narrow it if it finds more than one question.

Every case comes from CourtListener, the free case-law database run by the Free Law Project. We search it with queries planned from your request, read the opinion text, and only report opinions we actually retrieved. Each case links to its CourtListener page.

The AI model (Claude, by Anthropic) only sees opinions we retrieved and is told to use nothing else. Afterwards our software checks every case, citation and quote against the retrieved text. Anything that does not match — a case name or citation that was not retrieved, or a quote that is not in the opinion — is removed before you see the report.

A ranked list of cases with the case name, citation, court and date, a relevance score and label, a short summary of the holding, how the facts compare, whether it helps or hurts your position, a verbatim quote and a link, plus an overall research memo. You can print the report or save it as a PDF.

$99 per research topic, paid through PayPal before the research starts. There are no subscriptions. Research only begins after PayPal confirms the payment.

Yes. Submit a separate request for each topic — each one is scope-checked, paid for ($p per topic) and researched independently, so several can run at the same time. Unpaid requests can be cancelled at any time.

Usually a few minutes. Progress is shown on the request page and the research continues in the background even if you close the page; you will get an email when it is ready. If a data service is busy the status will show as delayed and it will retry automatically.

No. It’s On Point is a research tool for licensed attorneys. Results are AI-assisted and may be incomplete or wrong. Read every opinion and confirm that each authority is still good law before relying on it.

Attorneys. When you register we ask for your bar number and state; accounts are reviewed and marked as verified.

If the research could not be completed, or found nothing on point, contact us and we will review it. Approved refunds are issued through PayPal.