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Pinpoint finder

Find the page your quotation is on

Paste the case and the words you quoted: we find them in the scanned printed report and give you the pinpoint, the passage and every word that doesn't match.

Already have a pinpoint? We check that the words are on that page before a judge or a law clerk does.

  • Page, span or footnote
  • Checks your pinpoint
  • Every changed word
  • Page breaks marked

Find the page

Volume, reporter and first page, such as 347 U.S. 483, 494.

4 to 120 words, as they appear in your draft. Keep your ellipses and brackets: we match around them. Up to 600 characters.

Free to try: 5 searches a day. Part of the yearly toolset, which opens after the Kindle launch period.

What you get

The pinpoint, and the passage that shows the words

  • The page, the span or the footnote

    On page 495. Runs from 494 to 495: cite 494–95. In footnote 11, on page 494: cite 494 n.11. Written the way the book writes pinpoints.

  • A check of your pinpoint

    Already have a pinpoint? We check that the words are on that page before a judge or a law clerk does, and tell you the page they are on.

  • Every word that doesn't match

    A changed word, words left out without an ellipsis, words added outside brackets: each one, side by side with the opinion's own words.

  • The passage, with its page breaks

    About 600 characters around your words, with each page break marked [*495], and a note when the words are in a dissent, a footnote or the syllabus.

Why pinpoints go wrong

AI checkers can't see where the pages break. We can.

Researchers found that AI citation checkers miss most wrong pinpoints because they can't see where the pages break.

A pinpoint promises the reader that the words are on that page. Checking it takes the printed report's pagination, and that is what the scans of the printed reports preserve: a mark at every page break. The pinpoint finder reads those marks, so the page it gives you is the page of the printed volume.

18.2%

of incorrect pinpoint cites were caught by an AI citation verifier in a May 2026 study. The authors traced the gap to a lack of access to the official pagination, not to the model.

Patty Liu, Dominik Stammbach and Peter Henderson, Can AI reduce burdens on courts by automatically verifying citations? (opens in a new tab), Princeton Center for Information Technology Policy (May 27, 2026).

How it works

Three steps, about a minute

  1. Enter the case citation

    Type the volume, reporter and first page, such as 347 U.S. 483. If you already have a pinpoint, add it: 347 U.S. 483, 494.

  2. Paste the words you quoted

    Paste 4 to 120 words exactly as they appear in your draft. Keep your ellipses and brackets: the finder matches around them.

  3. Read the page and the passage

    You get the page, span or footnote; a check of the pinpoint you typed; the passage with its page breaks marked; every word that differs from the opinion; and the citation ready to paste.

What it covers

Coverage and limits

Which page numbers does it give?
The printed pages of the report the scan reproduces: for 347 U.S. 483, the pages of the United States Reports. A page in one reporter is not the same page in a parallel reporter, so for a parallel reporter's page, open that reporter.
Which decisions does it cover?
Decisions printed in the scanned official reports and other scanned reporters, mostly through 2014 to 2019. For a decision newer than the scans, cite the page of the report you read.
What if my reporter was not scanned?
The finder says so and gives no page: it never estimates one. Enter the case's citation in a scanned reporter instead, such as the official report; the parallels tool finds it. Find parallels
Can I quote with ellipses and brackets?
Yes. Keep them as they are in your draft. The finder matches the words around them, in order, and shows what each ellipsis leaves out and what each bracket replaces.
What if the scan misreads a word?
A difference the finder shows may be the scan's, so check the printed page before you change your quotation. Hard-to-read scans are flagged in the result.
Does it tell me whether the case is still good law?
No. It finds where words are printed, not whether the case has been overruled or questioned: it is not a citator.
Is my quotation stored?
No. Your citation and quotation are read in memory to answer the search and are not stored. We keep a count of searches and a cache of the scanned volumes and cases looked up.
How many searches can I make?
Visitors can try 5 searches a day. The finder is part of the yearly toolset, which opens after the Kindle launch period.

From the book

The rules the finder follows

Checking a whole brief? The document checker reads every citation. One case to confirm? Use the citation lookup.