{
  "version": "2026-10-23",
  "method": "Original, engineering-authored examples for selected citation-form behaviors. Expectations were specified before running the fixture set. This is a small public regression set, not an independent legal-accuracy study.",
  "fixtures": [
    {"id":"year-missing","text":"Brown v. Board of Education, 347 U.S. 483.","rule":"court-year","expect":"finding"},
    {"id":"year-present","text":"Brown v. Board of Education, 347 U.S. 483 (1954).","rule":"court-year","expect":"no-finding"},
    {"id":"reporter-spacing","text":"Smith v. Jones, 500 F.Supp.2d 123 (S.D.N.Y. 2007).","rule":"reporter-form","expect":"finding"},
    {"id":"reporter-spaced","text":"Smith v. Jones, 500 F. Supp. 2d 123 (S.D.N.Y. 2007).","rule":"reporter-form","expect":"no-finding"},
    {"id":"quote-no-pin","text":"The opinion says “separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.” Brown v. Board of Education, 347 U.S. 483 (1954).","rule":"quote-pinpoint","expect":"finding"},
    {"id":"quote-with-pin","text":"The opinion says “separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.” Brown v. Board of Education, 347 U.S. 483, 495 (1954).","rule":"quote-pinpoint","expect":"no-finding"},
    {"id":"id-without-prior","text":"Id. at 495.","rule":"id-first","expect":"finding"},
    {"id":"id-after-prior","text":"Brown v. Board of Education, 347 U.S. 483 (1954). Id. at 495.","rule":"id-first","expect":"no-finding"},
    {"id":"id-period","text":"Brown v. Board of Education, 347 U.S. 483 (1954). Id at 495.","rule":"id-form","expect":"finding"},
    {"id":"id-period-present","text":"Brown v. Board of Education, 347 U.S. 483 (1954). Id. at 495.","rule":"id-form","expect":"no-finding"},
    {"id":"short-without-prior","text":"Brown, 347 U.S. at 495.","rule":"short-form-first","expect":"finding"},
    {"id":"short-after-prior","text":"Brown v. Board of Education, 347 U.S. 483 (1954). Brown, 347 U.S. at 495.","rule":"short-form-first","expect":"no-finding"},
    {"id":"supra-case","text":"Brown v. Board of Education, 347 U.S. 483 (1954). Brown, supra, at 495.","rule":"supra-case","expect":"finding"},
    {"id":"supra-article","text":"Kline, supra note 2, at 16.","rule":"supra-case","expect":"no-finding"},
    {"id":"ordinal-court","text":"Smith v. Jones, 100 F.3d 10 (2nd Cir. 1996).","rule":"court-ordinal","expect":"finding"},
    {"id":"ordinal-court-correct","text":"Smith v. Jones, 100 F.3d 10 (2d Cir. 1996).","rule":"court-ordinal","expect":"no-finding"},
    {"id":"id-intervening-record","text":"Record at 42. Id. at 43.","rule":"id-first","expect":"abstain","note":"An intervening numbered source makes the antecedent uncertain; silence is not a resolved reference."},
    {"id":"short-ambiguous","text":"Smith v. Jones, 100 F.3d 10 (2d Cir. 1996). Davis v. Evans, 100 F.3d 30 (2d Cir. 1996). 100 F.3d at 35.","rule":"short-form-first","expect":"abstain","note":"Two same-volume authorities require a clear name; this target check should not assert that no full citation exists."}
  ]
}