Every answer Basil Brief gives is drawn from the material below and cites it.
Nothing else is in the corpus. Jurisdiction: California only.
11,087 passages indexed.
1,123 instructions loaded, indexed as 1,354 passages.
Jury instructions and verdict forms, current edition.
Licence. Free to reproduce with attribution, under California Rules of Court, rule 2.1050(c). Only the Judicial Council's own instruction and verdict-form text is used; no annotated commentary.
California codes
California Legislative Information (leginfo) ·
source
7,489 sections loaded, indexed as 9,733 passages.
Code of Civil Procedure, Civil Code, Government Code and Vehicle Code, from the 2025-2026 session snapshot.
Licence. Public domain, under Government Code section 10248.
Not loaded yet. This source is built but has not been ingested into the live service, so Basil Brief cannot answer from it. It will say it found nothing rather than guess.
Planned coverage: California Supreme Court and Court of Appeal opinions. Coverage runs to about 2020.
Licence. CC0, public domain.
What is missing
Case law stops at about 2020. Authority decided since then is not in the corpus, so Basil Brief cannot find it and will say so rather than guess.
Only California law is loaded. There is no federal law and no other state.
Each opinion is indexed by its summary and opening, not its full text, so a holding buried deep in a long opinion may not surface yet. The full opinion is stored and shown once the case is retrieved.
Nothing here tells you whether an authority is still good law. There is no citator. Check currency yourself before relying on anything.