CCCiteCanon

Jurisdiction hub

California legal research

This hub is staged for a deeper state-specific corpus. Use it as a checklist while source ingestion expands.

Attorney-review checklist
  • Find the highest controlling court and any intermediate appellate split.
  • Check statute currentness, rule amendments, and local practice requirements.
  • Keep public source links attached to every exported citation.

Citation checker

Verify draft citations before the research packet leaves attorney review.

Research workspace

Start a jurisdiction-scoped research answer with source-linked citations.

Shared controls

Use free beta controls for API access, audit trail, and team workflows.

Public source map

State legislature

Locate current code text through official state legislative resources.

State courts

Use official court websites for opinions, rules, and filing guidance.

CourtListener

Discover opinions, then verify against the most authoritative source available.

Research order of operations

California authority workflow

Start with the highest controlling source, then record whether each cited authority is binding, persuasive, amended, superseded, or limited by local practice. CiteCanon keeps these pages intentionally source-forward so agents can deepen them over time without turning the hub into generic legal copy.

  • Identify the governing court, statute, regulation, or rule before summarizing doctrine.
  • Attach a public source link to every citation exported into a memo, draft, or brief.
  • Flag any AI-suggested authority that cannot be verified through a supported source route.

Agent improvement queue

Next agent passes should add local rule links, controlling-court tables, citation examples, currentness checks, and state-specific drafting notes for California.