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Teaching legal research with AI that shows its sources
Students learn faster when the tool refuses to bluff. DocketX products cite the real opinion or rule for every statement, mark what could not be verified, and let a class compare how different models perform on real Texas cases.
For law schools and clinics
- Research with a verification layer: students query a library of 615,391 Texas appellate decisions and 122,681 statute sections; every citation in an answer is checked and unverifiable ones are removed and disclosed, which makes the failure modes of AI research visible instead of hidden.
- Citation and quotation checking as an exercise: paste a brief, see which citations exist, which names match, and which quotations are verbatim in the current rule text.
- Clinic use: DocketBuster explains a live hearing in plain language for the clients clinics serve, with the real rule behind each card.
- Benchmark on real cases: the Hallucination Leaderboard scores models on blinded real Texas appellate cases, with the source opinion withheld, so a class can see how a frontier model does with and without grounding.
For high schools and civics
- Mock trial and government classes can follow a real hearing with plain-language explanations of each ruling and the rule behind it.
- Every explanation links to the real text, which is the habit that matters most.
Program terms
Education access is priced for institutions; classroom API keys carry spending caps per student or per section, and usage is attributable per app. Ask about pilots for a clinic or a course.
See the tools →An exercise that teaches the failure mode
Give students a research question and two answers: one from an ungrounded model, one from the same model with the library and verification in front of it. Ask them to check every citation by hand. The ungrounded answer usually contains at least one citation that reads perfectly and does not exist, which is the lesson: fluency is not authority, and the only defence is looking it up.
What a clinic gets
Clinics serve the people who cannot afford counsel, and their clients arrive mid-case with a hearing date. The plain-language explanation of what a hearing step means, with the real rule behind it, lets a supervising attorney spend their limited minutes on judgement rather than on vocabulary.
For high school and civics
Mock trial and government classes can follow a real proceeding with each ruling explained and linked to the rule that produced it. The habit worth teaching is not "the AI said so" but "here is the rule, read it yourself," which is the same habit that makes a good lawyer.
Questions
Can students see the sources?
Yes. Every answer lists the retrieved opinions and rules, the citations checked and what was removed, so the research trail is inspectable.
Is the benchmark public?
The methodology, the pinned item list and the per-model results are published on docketrouter.ai; the source opinions are withheld from models during testing.
Can a course get capped keys?
Yes. Keys carry hard spending caps and can be issued per section or per student, with usage separated per app.
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DocketX products are research and explanation tools, not legal advice and not a law firm. They show you the real rule or opinion behind a statement so you can read it yourself. Coverage and counts are stated as of the index date on each product page.