Maryland Appellate Case Law

Research Maryland case law you can actually trust.

Semantic search over 45,000+ reported and unreported opinions, an annotating reader, a full citator, brief-checking tools, and AI that only ever cites real cases — built for Maryland practice.

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45,000+
opinions indexed
50+
fields digested per case
Both courts
reported & unreported

Find the right authority

Search built for how lawyers actually look for cases.

Natural-language search

Natural-language search

Describe the issue in plain English. Semantic search over 45,000+ Maryland appellate opinions surfaces the on-point cases even when they don't share your wording — ranked, with the passage that matched.

Court, year, judge & practice-area filters

Court, year, judge & practice-area filters

Narrow to the Supreme Court or Appellate Court of Maryland, a year range, a disposition, or a practice area — the result count updates as you go.

Exact-phrase search

Exact-phrase search

Wrap a phrase in quotes to find every opinion that uses it verbatim — ranked by how often it appears, with a highlighted excerpt. Paste a quote to trace it to its source.

Jump to a case by name or citation

Jump to a case by name or citation

Know the case already? Switch to lookup mode and type a name or citation for instant typeahead straight into the reader.

Read & annotate

A full opinion reader with the annotation tools you'd expect.

The three-pane reader workspace

The three-pane reader workspace

Full opinion text in the center, your results and saved-case library on the left, and Notes / Chat / Outline / Digest / Cited-by / Marks on the right. Panels collapse when you want just the opinion.

Color highlights that stay put

Color highlights that stay put

Highlight passages in four colors; they're saved to your research and repaint every time you reopen the case. Click a saved highlight to jump back to it in the text.

Jump-to outline of every opinion

Jump-to outline of every opinion

An auto-built table of contents — questions presented, holdings grouped by doctrine, and key passages. Click any entry to scroll to it in the opinion.

Structured digest

Structured digest

A 50-field digest of every case — summary, facts, questions presented, holdings, rule statements, points of law, notable quotes, and the statutes it construes.

Chat with the case

Chat with the case

Ask questions about the opinion you're reading and get answers grounded in its text — the transcript is saved with the case, so you can pick the conversation back up later.

Citation intelligence

Know how a case stands and how it connects.

Citator — who cites this case

Citator — who cites this case

Every opinion in the corpus that cites the case you're reading, ranked by the citing case's own authority. Add a second case to find opinions citing both.

Good-law / negative-treatment flag

Good-law / negative-treatment flag

A red flag warns when a case has been overruled, abrogated, superseded, or questioned by later Maryland opinions — click it to see exactly which cases treated it and how. (A lower court can't negatively treat a higher court, so those aren't flagged.)

Judge insights

Judge insights

Click the authoring judge to see their opinion count, the years they sat, their disposition mix, and a clickable list of recent opinions.

Interactive citation map

Interactive citation map

See a case's citation network as a directional flow, a force-directed web, or a timeline (y-axis = times cited). Zoom, pan, hover for detail, click to re-center.

Statute citator

Statute citator

Every statute and rule a case construes is a chip — click it to see all the Maryland cases construing that provision, ranked by authority.

AI research assistants

Grounded, citable AI — never a hallucinated case.

Ask — cited answers from the corpus

Ask — cited answers from the corpus

Ask a plain-English question and get a synthesized answer grounded in — and citing — real Maryland opinions, with clickable source cards. Every citation is verifiable.

Argument builder — authority for & against

Argument builder — authority for & against

State a proposition and the corpus authority is sorted into supporting and contrary/distinguishing columns, each case with a one-line reason, a rule, and a treatment flag.

Brief tools

Verify and assemble the authorities in a brief.

Check citations

Check citations

Paste a brief or AI-drafted passage; every case citation is checked against the corpus and every quoted passage verified — catching fabricated cites and misquotes.

Table of Authorities builder

Table of Authorities builder

Paste a brief and get a formatted, alphabetized Table of Authorities — cases, statutes, and rules — with Maryland cases canonicalized and flagged for good law. One-click copy.

Audit brief — upload & validate every cite + quote

Audit brief — upload & validate every cite + quote

Upload a PDF or Word brief and get a table pairing each cited case with its quoted passage — validating the case against the corpus and the quote against that specific case, flagging misquotes and fabricated citations.

Organize your research

Keep every matter's research together.

Folders, saved cases & AI memos

Folders, saved cases & AI memos

Save cases into folders, add per-case notes and free-form notes, and draft a memo from a folder's cases, your notes, and highlighted quotes with one click.

Try it free

See it before you sign in.

Logged-out demo

Logged-out demo

Anyone can search and open a case, read a preview, and try highlighting and notes — nothing is saved, no account needed — before signing in for the full workspace.

Every citation, verifiable.

Search by meaning, read with your annotations, check a brief's authorities, and let AI draft with cases that actually exist.

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