Case law research
Supreme Court of India research, paragraph by paragraph
Ask in plain English, or give the facts of the matter. Every claim in the answer is pinned to the paragraph it rests on, with the later treatment of the authority beside it.
Does the earlier decision lay down a rule, or turn on its own facts?
“…the question is whether the earlier decision laid down a rule of general application or was confined to its own facts…”
Followed Distinguished on the facts
Overruled in part Flagged for you
Finch reads bench strength from each judgment, because a two-judge bench cannot overrule a five-judge bench.
We indexed the Supreme Court ourselves
Finch built its index from the official Supreme Court Reports. It is our own index of the court, and the unit of search is the paragraph, so you land on the passage that matters.
- Bench-awareA two-judge bench cannot overrule a five-judge bench, and Finch knows which is which.
- Counsel decidesFinch will not call a case good law. Where the evidence is thin, it says so.
How a research question runs
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Ask
In plain English, or give the facts of your matter.
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Find the paragraphs
Search runs over individual passages.
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Read the treatment
See the grounds on which later benches distinguished an authority, and whether it was overruled.
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Open the source
Each claim opens the paragraph it rests on.
Why it holds up in court
- Paragraph-level answersEach claim is pinned to the paragraph it rests on.
- Later treatmentThe grounds on which later benches distinguished a case.
- Overruled flagsYou are told when a judgment has been overruled.
- Bench compositionRead from the judgment across 94% of the corpus.
Case law research: questions
Which courts does research cover?
The Supreme Court of India is indexed in full. High Courts are in development. Tribunals and UK courts are planned.
How big is the corpus?
38,366 judgments from 1950 to 2026, 925,893 individually searchable passages, 52,411 citation links, and 2,108 Constitution Bench decisions identified.
Can I trust the citations?
Every claim is pinned to a paragraph you can open. In evaluation, Finch produced zero invalid citations across 48 answers.
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