{
  "version": "2026-10-23",
  "scope": "Extraction and selected deterministic form checks only. No live identity, quotation-location, AI-support, treatment, publication-status or filing-compliance verification.",
  "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.",
  "sourceSha256": "231c324616cb911d19c383a4b6b2b07613667511ed5481c71d752ae127e3eece",
  "totals": {
    "fixtures": 18,
    "passed": 18,
    "positive": 8,
    "negative": 8,
    "abstentions": 2,
    "misses": 0,
    "falseFlags": 0
  },
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    {
      "id": "year-missing",
      "text": "Brown v. Board of Education, 347 U.S. 483.",
      "rule": "court-year",
      "expect": "finding",
      "citations": 1,
      "findings": [
        "court-year"
      ],
      "observed": "finding",
      "passed": true
    },
    {
      "id": "year-present",
      "text": "Brown v. Board of Education, 347 U.S. 483 (1954).",
      "rule": "court-year",
      "expect": "no-finding",
      "citations": 1,
      "findings": [],
      "observed": "no-finding",
      "passed": true
    },
    {
      "id": "reporter-spacing",
      "text": "Smith v. Jones, 500 F.Supp.2d 123 (S.D.N.Y. 2007).",
      "rule": "reporter-form",
      "expect": "finding",
      "citations": 1,
      "findings": [
        "reporter-form"
      ],
      "observed": "finding",
      "passed": true
    },
    {
      "id": "reporter-spaced",
      "text": "Smith v. Jones, 500 F. Supp. 2d 123 (S.D.N.Y. 2007).",
      "rule": "reporter-form",
      "expect": "no-finding",
      "citations": 1,
      "findings": [],
      "observed": "no-finding",
      "passed": true
    },
    {
      "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",
      "citations": 1,
      "findings": [
        "quote-pinpoint"
      ],
      "observed": "finding",
      "passed": true
    },
    {
      "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",
      "citations": 1,
      "findings": [],
      "observed": "no-finding",
      "passed": true
    },
    {
      "id": "id-without-prior",
      "text": "Id. at 495.",
      "rule": "id-first",
      "expect": "finding",
      "citations": 1,
      "findings": [
        "id-first"
      ],
      "observed": "finding",
      "passed": true
    },
    {
      "id": "id-after-prior",
      "text": "Brown v. Board of Education, 347 U.S. 483 (1954). Id. at 495.",
      "rule": "id-first",
      "expect": "no-finding",
      "citations": 2,
      "findings": [],
      "observed": "no-finding",
      "passed": true
    },
    {
      "id": "id-period",
      "text": "Brown v. Board of Education, 347 U.S. 483 (1954). Id at 495.",
      "rule": "id-form",
      "expect": "finding",
      "citations": 2,
      "findings": [
        "id-form"
      ],
      "observed": "finding",
      "passed": true
    },
    {
      "id": "id-period-present",
      "text": "Brown v. Board of Education, 347 U.S. 483 (1954). Id. at 495.",
      "rule": "id-form",
      "expect": "no-finding",
      "citations": 2,
      "findings": [],
      "observed": "no-finding",
      "passed": true
    },
    {
      "id": "short-without-prior",
      "text": "Brown, 347 U.S. at 495.",
      "rule": "short-form-first",
      "expect": "finding",
      "citations": 1,
      "findings": [
        "short-form-first"
      ],
      "observed": "finding",
      "passed": true
    },
    {
      "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",
      "citations": 2,
      "findings": [],
      "observed": "no-finding",
      "passed": true
    },
    {
      "id": "supra-case",
      "text": "Brown v. Board of Education, 347 U.S. 483 (1954). Brown, supra, at 495.",
      "rule": "supra-case",
      "expect": "finding",
      "citations": 2,
      "findings": [
        "supra-case"
      ],
      "observed": "finding",
      "passed": true
    },
    {
      "id": "supra-article",
      "text": "Kline, supra note 2, at 16.",
      "rule": "supra-case",
      "expect": "no-finding",
      "citations": 1,
      "findings": [],
      "observed": "no-finding",
      "passed": true
    },
    {
      "id": "ordinal-court",
      "text": "Smith v. Jones, 100 F.3d 10 (2nd Cir. 1996).",
      "rule": "court-ordinal",
      "expect": "finding",
      "citations": 1,
      "findings": [
        "court-ordinal"
      ],
      "observed": "finding",
      "passed": true
    },
    {
      "id": "ordinal-court-correct",
      "text": "Smith v. Jones, 100 F.3d 10 (2d Cir. 1996).",
      "rule": "court-ordinal",
      "expect": "no-finding",
      "citations": 1,
      "findings": [],
      "observed": "no-finding",
      "passed": true
    },
    {
      "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.",
      "citations": 1,
      "findings": [],
      "observed": "no-finding",
      "passed": true
    },
    {
      "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.",
      "citations": 3,
      "findings": [],
      "observed": "no-finding",
      "passed": true
    }
  ]
}
