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The Intelligence Engine
Judicial-analytics vendors infer from whatever slice of the record they hold. BenchPath holds the primary sources: a verified corpus of Florida appellate opinions in sha-256 custody from the courts' own publications, 2,007 verified Florida and Texas judicial officers with their published procedures, deadline chains, and chambers protocols — and the on-demand Live Case-Type Intelligence Scan on every dossier, Bluebook-cited and quoted verbatim, taking the minutes precision takes. Tendency synthesis publishes only after human review.
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Judicial intelligence on one judge, one division — how that courtroom actually runs, drawn only from what the court itself publishes. Every requirement verified against the official source and cited line by line; the live scan quotes your judge's rulings in the opinions' own words; two independent AI engines cross-examine every finding and show where they agree and where they differ — never a prediction, never a guess. Printable as a PDF, built for the attorney walking into an unfamiliar division and the self-represented litigant walking into court for the first time.
If a live scan finds no public rulings for your judge and case type, you are not charged — you pay for findings, never for absence. Sealed case types (adoption, juvenile, dependency) are refused with the statute shown, not guessed at.
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Florida appellate opinions — the Supreme Court and all six District Courts of Appeal — held in custody from the courts' own publications, each with a sha-256 receipt recorded at fetch. A trial judge is credited only from the opinion's own attribution line, quoted verbatim as the receipt and cross-checked county-to-circuit before it counts; ambiguous lines are held, never guessed. Every number below is computed from the database at render time.
Every opinion classified by case type — all 175,812 opinions carry a verified case-type classification (222,877 evidence-receipted case-type links; an opinion can carry its class plus specific subtypes), feeding the authority stack and the Bench Memo matter filter.
Every opinion is fetched from the courts' own public media host and stored with its sha-256, canonical URL, and full text. An integrity quarantine removes a compromised record — and its attributions — from every public surface the moment it is flagged.
Attribution comes from the opinion's own “Appeal from” line — stored verbatim as the receipt. County-to-circuit cross-checks reject mismatches before anything renders, and unmatched lines stay unmatched rather than approximated.
Dossiers with five or more matched opinions show the appellate courts' own disposition labels — affirmed, reversed, dismissed — as counts with their date span. No rate, no score, no prediction, and no judge-selection advice.
Select dossiers carry verbatim excerpts from hash-verified official slip opinions — Bluebook-cited to the pinpoint — with a plain-language explanation of what the court did and the reasons the court itself stated. Publication proceeds dossier by dossier through the review gate.
BenchPath explains the public record; it does not choose a motion, argument, or strategy for a self-represented reader.
For attested Florida and Texas attorneys (and their supervised staff) with an active Professional or Firm membership: judge- and motion-calibrated curated reasoning over the verified corpus — citations, confidence, and gaps disclosed — plus a dual-AI decision-support lane whose access requires the sworn professional attestation and explicit attorney confirmation.
Arguments, counterarguments, procedural-strategy support, and calibrated outcome reading all require that verified access. Every statement must cite the corpus or it is deleted, consensus takes two independent engines, and when an engine is unavailable the workbench returns curated-only output with the reason shown. No outcome is ever guaranteed.
Distinct from the appellate corpus above: this set records rulings that never reach a written opinion — attorney-reported and authored rulings, each verified through the review queue before it counts. The engine's on-demand leg is the Live Case-Type Intelligence Scan on every judge dossier — pick the judge and the kind of case, and it searches the public record in real time, Bluebook-cites every hit, and quotes each opinion's own words. The scan takes the minutes precision takes; this stored exemplar set just shows the machinery's output shape.
The corpus grows through connectors — the courts' own publications first, free public case-law for live scans, and bring-your-own-license integrations for firms with existing research subscriptions. Nothing is scraped; every connector uses official channels under its own terms, and every record links to its source.
The corpus channel: appellate opinions are collected from the courts' own public media host — the Supreme Court and all six District Courts of Appeal — with sha-256 custody recorded at fetch. CourtListener is never used to build the corpus; it stays a customer-facing scan connector.
The free public case-law connector: authored-opinion sweeps for CourtListener-verified judges plus a live case-law scan inside every report. Florida trial-court coverage is thin by the source's nature — each report discloses its coverage window.
A free cross-check channel with deep historical reach and a basic citator (“Cited by”). Scholar publishes no API and its terms bar automated access, so BenchPath never fetches it and never feeds it to the analysis engines — findings link out and the search runs in your own browser, where Scholar's own “Select courts” filter narrows to a state or federal tier.
For firms with a Westlaw subscription: connect through the official Thomson Reuters developer program so reports can pull judge-specific and related-case research under your own license. Never scraped, never spoofed — your data stays under your agreement. Request access →
Same posture as Westlaw: firms connect their own Lexis subscription through the official developer channel, and the report's research legs run under the firm's license and entitlements. Request access →
An independent survey of all 67 Florida clerks (September 2, 2026) found exactly two that sell programmatic docket access — Broward and Miami-Dade, both prepaid per request, metadata only — and none that offer a free API. BenchPath's connectors read those two official APIs for a matter's own case number (parties, counsel, assigned judge, hearings, events, dispositions) and stay dormant until each clerk's agreement and key are recorded; every other county links to its clerk's own case search. Never scraped, no documents, no deadline is ever created from a feed. Broward: agreement pending (connector built, off). Miami-Dade: agreement pending (connector built, off).
Every skill carries an honest status: ● Live runs today on the verified corpus; ◐ Review-gated runs but publishes nothing until a human reviewer signs off; ○ Pipeline is designed and disclosed here before it runs — we list what's coming instead of pretending it's live.
Every verified requirement this judge enforces — one compliance profile.
Compiles all judge-, division-, county-, circuit-, and statewide-scoped requirements that govern appearing before this judge into a single ranked profile, most-specific first.
runs_on Verified rule cards linked to the judge/division + inherited scopes; source excerpts and last-verified dates.
delivers The report's Procedural Requirements section with per-item citations and confidence.
Statewide + local + judge conferral duties, merged into one obligation list.
Layers Fla. R. Civ. P. 1.202 with circuit, division, and judge-specific conferral rules (incl. dual-certificate regimes like Div. CV-E) and outputs exactly which certificates a filing needs.
runs_on meet-confer category rules across all scopes; judge exhibits/templates where published.
delivers A merged conferral checklist with required certificate exhibits.
Every trigger→due chain that controls this courtroom.
Assembles judge-linked and scope-inherited deadline rules (proposed-order clocks, MSJ windows, CMC tracks) into one computable matrix under Rule 2.514 counting.
runs_on deadline_rules joined to the judge's applicable rule set.
delivers The report's Deadline Table with citations and day-type.
Knows which judges require AI-use certificates — before sanctions teach you.
Detects explicit judicial AI-use policies (e.g., mandatory AI certificates with sanction exposure) and states the default posture where none is published.
runs_on judge-preference rules + procedure documents scanned for AI/GenAI directives.
delivers A flagged AI-compliance card with the judge's template exhibit when published.
The judge's hearing-access code: windows, limits, formats.
Extracts ex parte windows, time caps, uncontested-only limits, and hybrid/Zoom appearance protocols from the judge's published procedures.
runs_on motion-calendar and remote-hearing rules + divisional instructions.
delivers Hearing-access card (when/how you actually get heard).
Format, clock, and channel for orders this judge will sign.
Extracts order format (Word/DOCX/DJMCA), circulation and submission clocks, caption requirements, and routing channel per judge/division.
runs_on proposed-orders and efiling rules across scopes.
delivers Order-submission protocol card with deadlines wired to the matrix.
Every authored opinion we can verify — linked, dated, honest about coverage.
Maintains the judge's verified authored-opinion corpus with explicit coverage-window disclosure, plus a live case-law scan for real-time checks.
runs_on judge_rulings (CourtListener-verified) + live CL connector; CL person-ID where mapped.
delivers Rulings timeline + corpus stats + live scan.
How this judge tends to rule — with N, method, and sources, or it doesn't publish.
Clusters the rulings corpus and attorney ground-truth reports by topic to draft tendency insights; every insight carries methodology, support count, and clickable sources, and publishes only after human review.
runs_on judge_rulings + verified ruling_reports; review pipeline.
delivers Published Insights block (review-gated).
What this judge requires that division peers don't.
Diffs the judge's requirements against same-division/county peers to surface the traps unique to this courtroom.
runs_on Current-division assignments + published rules of division peers, computed at request time.
delivers The dossier's Division Peer Delta card: categories unique to this judge vs every current peer, peers linked.
Benches move — this watches.
Tracks assignment history, vacancies (recorded from official sources), and daily source-hash changes on the judge's directory pages; alerts followers on movement.
runs_on judge_assignments history + monitor change events on the judge's registered sources.
delivers The dossier's History tab: assignment timeline with sources, plus every detected change to the judge's pages; followers get alerts via Watching.
Every claim timestamped; the report grades its own integrity.
Audits each report section's sources for health and last-verified recency and computes a report-level integrity readout — the anti-black-box.
runs_on sources health + last_checked_at + per-rule last_verified_at.
delivers Source Appendix with health badges and verification dates.
The human layer: JA, courtroom, contact protocol.
Compiles the judicial assistant (name/phone/email where published), courtroom, chambers-communication rules, and scheduling channels.
runs_on judicial_assistants + assignments + chambers-communication rules.
delivers Chambers card on profile and report.
Know the court above the court.
Maps which DCA reviews this judge (verified jurisdiction lines), that DCA's current bench, and any of the judge's own appellate artifacts in corpus.
runs_on Verified circuit→DCA jurisdiction (§ 35.043, Fla. Stat., six-district alignment eff. 2023) + the DCA's published bench + appellate artifacts in the rulings corpus.
delivers The dossier's Appellate Exposure card: which DCA reviews this courtroom, that court's bench, and this judge's appellate artifacts.
The 97% capture channel — structured, verified, credited.
Accepts structured attorney reports of unwritten rulings (motion, outcome, date, case no.), verifies through the review queue, and feeds the pattern synthesizer — the dataset competitors call proprietary, built in the open.
runs_on ruling_reports submissions + reviewer verification.
delivers Verified ground-truth entries in the rulings corpus.
Where judge practice is stricter than the statewide rule — flagged.
Detects divergences between statewide rules and judge/division requirements (shorter clocks, extra certificates) and flags each as a compliance trap.
runs_on Deadline rules scoped to the judge vs statewide deadline rules sharing the same trigger event, compared on quoted timing.
delivers The dossier's Conflict Sentinel card: every judge-level deadline running shorter than the statewide baseline, both rule texts linked.
The corpus is verifiable. Every judge, requirement, deadline, and ruling links to an official source with a last-verified date — click any claim in any report to its source.
Beyond written opinions. Structured attorney ruling-reports can add evidence about rulings that never reach a written opinion. Coverage is early and incomplete; every report discloses its own corpus and review status through a public queue.
Synthesis is review-gated. Tendency insights publish only with methodology, support count, and sources attached, after human sign-off. BenchPath does not publish psychological or temperament labels about judges.