Legal Tech Startup Paxton AI has launched the Paxton AI Citator, a now patent pending essential tool for legal professionals to check the standing and precedential value of the case.
These tools track whether a case has been overruled, affirmed, questioned, or cited by later cases. Traditionally, citators like LexisNexis’s Shepard’s, Thomson Reuters’s KeyCite, and Bloomberg’s BCite have been managed by human editors and reliant on extensive legal databases. Human-based citators have been essential for legal research, yet they can be expensive, time-consuming, and prone to error.
Despite their ubiquity in legal practice, traditional citators are expensive and error-prone. They depend on vast editorial teams to manually update a case’s legal status.
Leveraging artificial intelligence, the Paxton AI Citator addresses the limitations of traditional citators. Evaluated against the Stanford Casehold dataset of 2,400 examples testing whether a case was overturned or upheld, our citator … … weiterlesen →