Paste a brief. See which citations need a second look.
Candor picks the case citations out of your text and asks CourtListener whether each one exists. No signup, nothing to install, and your text never leaves this page.
Nothing you paste is uploaded. Candor reads it here, finds the citations, and sends only those, one bare string each, to look up.
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Your text stays with you
The text you paste stays in your browser. Only the citation strings Candor finds (like 347 U.S. 483) go to Candor’s server, which passes each one alone to CourtListener, the free case-law collection run by the nonprofit Free Law Project. No names, no surrounding sentences.
It flags; it doesn’t clear
“Not found” means CourtListener had nothing at that citation, which is worth a hard look: invented and mistyped citations both land there, and so do real cases its collection lacks. “Found” only means a case sits at that citation. It says nothing about whether the case holds what your brief says, whether the pin cite is right, or whether it is still good law. Read every one.
What it picks up
Case citations in the U.S., S. Ct., L. Ed., F., F. Supp., So., A., P., N.E., N.W., S.E., S.W., Cal. and N.Y. reporters, up to 25 per check. U.S.C. sections are listed but not looked up. Other reporters, Westlaw and Lexis cites, and citations split across lines may be missed entirely.
What Candor keeps
A count of how many checks ran each day. Not your text, not the citations, not your IP address, which is held only in memory to stop abuse. Like any website, the hosts keep standard request logs: Render, which runs Candor, logs each check’s IP address, time and the address requested, as Vercel does for this page. Your pasted text never reaches either. Answers from CourtListener are held in memory for up to a day so a repeat citation needn’t be looked up twice, unconnected to who asked. See the privacy page.
Not legal advice
Candor is software, not a law firm, and this check isn’t legal advice. It lowers the odds that a bad citation slips through; it can’t take them to zero. The attorney who signs the filing is the one who decides it is ready.