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Recipes

Resolve and verify a statute citation

Resolve a citation to its governing section, and check a whole document's citations in one pass.

  • GET resolve for one citation; POST for many.
  • Handle annotated forms such as 42 U.S.C.A. § 1983.
  • Flag citations that do not resolve for human review.
Example citationKind
42 U.S.C. § 1983Federal statute
16 C.F.R. § 444.1Federal regulation
Del. Code Ann. tit. 13, § 1301State statute

Last modified on October 20, 2026

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