Methodology

How an entry is made, what counts as a match, and what stops a build.

What qualifies

An entry records an instance in which a court made a finding about a citation or assertion produced by a machine system and filed by a person. The finding must appear in the court's own document. A report of a finding is not a finding, and a news account of an order is not the order.

Matching

An entry is matched when the caption, court and date resolve to a single docket in that court's file. 316 of 366 entries — 86.3% — are matched. The remainder are recorded as unmatched rather than approximated, and an unmatched entry is never given the nearest plausible docket.

Revision 4 lowered this rate from 87.4% to 86.3%. Four entries whose captions were informative about a person but resolved to many dockets in the same court were struck rather than re-matched. One of the four reversed an adjudication made two days earlier that had asked whether a long gap between filing and decision was explicable, rather than whether the caption identified a docket at all. See Revisions.

Guards

9 rules run against every build. A FAIL stops the build; a WARN queues the entry for adjudication. An adjudication recorded against a filed order downgrades a FAIL to a WARN — the guard is not removed and the reasoning is kept. Current state: 1 FAIL, 15 WARN.

Two of the nine exist because the register got something wrong. One fires on a repeated sentinel value in a monetary field, after twelve entries across eleven courts were found carrying a penalty amount of exactly 1 — a field default, not eleven one-dollar sanctions. The other fires on a caption that is informative about a person but collides with many dockets in the same court.

Attribution

283 of 366 findings do not identify the system involved. The register does not infer one. A product is named only by quoting a public order.

The attribution rate is falling as volume rises — 40.0% in 2024, 28.1% in 2025, 18.2% in 2026. Two explanations fit and the public data cannot separate them: courts may name systems less often as the phenomenon becomes routine, or the growing share of brief orders may carry less detail than early written opinions did.

Remedy

9 entries — 2.5% — establish a remedy.

Form	Entries
Fee-shifting, amount deferred to invoice or accounting	6
Fee-shifting recommended	1
Finding made, remedy unspecified	1
Fixed amount recommended	1
Not established	357

No amount distribution is published. Any amount statistic from this corpus describes amounts STATED IN A FIRST ORDER, a biased subsample that excludes the dominant remedy.