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Paxton Legal Research

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Overview

Paxton Legal Research brings Paxton's U.S. legal research sources into your conversation. Ask a legal research question and get authorities you can open and check. What you can do: - Search federal and state statutes, regulations, and court rules. - Search federal and state case law, with jurisdiction and date filters. - Search indexed EEOC and NLRB administrative decisions. - Read the full text of a returned authority. - Inspect a case's citation relationships and available status information. Results include source links. Links to statutes and cases open in Paxton and require Paxton sign-in. Links to EEOC and NLRB decisions open on the publisher's site. Who it is for: lawyers, paralegals, and other legal professionals who have a Paxton account with legal research access. Sign in with your existing Paxton account when you connect. Access follows your account and organization permissions. Limits: the plugin is read-only and covers U.S. law. It searches Paxton's legal research sources. It does not read your private matter files, upload documents, or change any data. Legal research requires professional review. Search results and citation relationships do not establish that an authority is controlling, current, or sufficient for a legal proposition. A missing status result does not mean an authority is good law.

Tools

get_citator_info

ChatGPT
Get citation analysis for a case. Cite each linked authority with its own citation_markdown, including tables and follow-ups. Use heading_markdown when an authority starts a bullet or section. Disclose unavailable links; never use the target case's URL for a citing or cited authority. Returns cases cited by this case, cases citing it, and Paxton's stored status assessment. A status state of "not_assessed" means no stored assessment exists, not good law. Neither an assessment nor citation relationships establish exhaustive subsequent-history review. Args: parent_id: Paxton's case parent identifier. info_type: "cited_by" returns outbound references cited by this case; "citing" returns inbound cases that cite this case; "status" returns the upstream legal-status result; "all" (default) includes all three. Citation counts describe the returned direction.

get_source_text

ChatGPT
Retrieve the full text of a returned legal authority. Cite this authority with the returned citation_markdown. Use heading_markdown for a linked heading. Disclose unavailable links. Accepts an administrative source_handle or a statute/case-law s3_path or s3_dir identifier. Returns JSON containing complete normalized text plus resolved identity and citation-link metadata. Mentions of other authorities inside that text do not establish their identity or source URLs. Exactly one source identifier is required. Args: source_handle: Opaque source_handle returned from administrative-decision results. s3_path: Existing s3_path or s3_dir returned from statute or case-law results.

search_administrative_decisions

ChatGPT
Search full EEOC and NLRB administrative decisions with BM25 and sentence windows. Cite authorities with the returned citation_markdown, including short answers and tables. Use heading_markdown when an authority starts a bullet or section. If a link is unavailable, disclose that; never invent one or reuse it for another authority. Covers labor-and-employment decisions from the EEOC and NLRB. Ranking uses full-document BM25 with identity-aware matching; results contain verbatim sentence windows, not generated legal conclusions. Passages can include holdings, allegations, arguments, and quoted authority. Args: query: Keywords, a known identifier or citation, or a double-quoted exact phrase for BM25. research_goal: The user's complete research request, used to rank passages within each decision. agencies: One or both of "eeoc" and "nlrb". Defaults to both. n_results: Number of full decisions to inspect (default and maximum 5). Returns: JSON list of decisions with stable identity, source URL, rank, and verbatim sentence windows carrying exact character offsets into the indexed normalized text.

search_case_law

ChatGPT
Search US case law — federal and state court opinions. Cite authorities with the returned citation_markdown, including short answers and tables. Use heading_markdown when a case starts a bullet or section. If citator_check is present, treat unavailable as unchecked; do not infer good law from a failed status lookup. If a link is unavailable, disclose that; never invent one or reuse it for another authority. Searches Paxton's database of case law using hybrid semantic + keyword search. Args: query: Natural language search query (e.g., "qualified immunity police excessive force") jurisdiction_codes: Filter by jurisdiction (e.g., ["U.S.", "Cal.", "N.Y."]) date_start: Filter cases decided after this date (ISO format, e.g., "2020-01-01") date_end: Filter cases decided before this date (ISO format, e.g., "2024-12-31") include_unpublished: Include unpublished/non-precedential opinions (default True) n_results: Number of matching passages (default 10, max 20); multiple can share one opinion. Returns: JSON list of case law search results with citation, title, text, jurisdiction_code, s3_path, and source_url. The source_url opens the exact opinion in Paxton's authenticated viewer; s3_path is an internal source identifier, not a public URL. Each result's identity describes that opinion, not other authorities mentioned within its text.

get_citator_info

Claude

get_source_text

Claude

search_administrative_decisions

Claude

search_case_law

Claude

Capabilities

Search Statutes, Regulations, And RulesSearch Case LawSearch Eeoc And Nlrb DecisionsRead Legal Source TextCheck Case Citation History

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