Jurisdiction hub

New York legal research

New York research usually needs a clean split between Court of Appeals, Appellate Division departments, trial courts, statutes, and local rules.

Attorney-review checklist

Identify the relevant Appellate Division department before weighing authority.
Confirm whether trial-court decisions are persuasive only and whether a rule limits citation.
Check local part rules and e-filing requirements outside the research answer.

Motion draft packet

Create a source-gated motion outline with verified citation handling.

Citation checker

Block unsupported authorities before a New York filing packet moves forward.

AI research duties

Map verification duties before relying on AI-assisted authority lists.

Public source map

NY Senate Laws

Start here for consolidated statute text.

NY Courts

Check official slip opinions and reporter materials.

CourtListener New York

Good discovery source for cases and citation variants.

Research order of operations

New York 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Start with the highest controlling source, then record whether each cited authority is binding, persuasive, amended, superseded, or limited by local practice.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 New York.