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For each case citation, it compares the case name, year, report and court with our record of that case, and gives it one of three labels. It links you to read the judgment on the court's site, AustLII or JADE, and you confirm each case yourself.

It uses no generative AI, and it doesn't write or change your work.

Each case citation in a check gets one of these three.

Matches our record

The case name, year, report and court agree with our record of the case.

Differs from our record

The same case, but a detail differs, such as the year or the page. You see both side by side, and you decide.

Not in our records

We don't hold it, which doesn't make it wrong. You get links to search AustLII and JADE.

None of them says a citation is right, and none says a real case is wrong.

It means the name, year, report and court in your citation agree with our record of the case. Whether the case supports your point, and whether it is still good law, is for you to read and decide.

Open the judgment from the result, read the part you rely on, then tick the case once you have read it. The tick records your own check, not ours.

Our records are incomplete, especially for recent decisions. A case we don't hold may still exist, so the result gives you links to search for it on AustLII and JADE.

If you find it there, read it there and check your citation against it.

The check is in beta, which means it is still being tested. It can miss a citation, read one wrongly or match the wrong record. In our own tests, some Commonwealth Law Reports (CLR) citations matched a different case from the one the citation belongs to.

After any match, open the record and check the case name, court and year before you rely on it. If a result looks wrong, email the citation as you wrote it to support@casesharp.ai.

It checks that each case citation agrees with our record of the case. It doesn't check:

• Whether a case supports your point, or is still good law.
• The page or paragraph you cite, or the words you quote.
• Which judge said what.
• Legislation, journal articles or books. Only case citations are checked for now.
• Whether your work was written by AI. It isn't an AI detector or a plagiarism checker.

Upload a Word document (.docx), a PDF with selectable text or a .txt file, up to 4 MB, or paste your draft. Footnotes and endnotes in a Word file are read, with their numbers kept.

Each check takes up to 200,000 characters, so check a thesis one chapter at a time. Without an account, a guest check takes up to 10 footnotes you paste.

With a free account, each case citation comes with a draft AGLC4 footnote. When we tested CaseSharp's AGLC4 output on 13 October 2026, more than a third of the citations it formatted broke at least one rule, so check each one against the AGLC4 rules and the original source.

Each court and official publisher sets its own terms for reusing its judgments. The copies we hold today don't have a record showing those terms allow it, so we don't show their text.

Each case shows its details, such as the name, citation, court and date, with links to read the judgment on the court's site, AustLII or JADE.

That is across every court, computed from our records on 13 October 2026. Treat anything decided later as not held yet. Each of the 32 courts and tribunals on our coverage page has its own date, and some end earlier.

CaseSharp isn't a citator. It doesn't tell you how later cases treated a case, so check that in your library's databases.

Decisions of Australian courts and tribunals, some legislation, hearing transcripts for many High Court cases, and some United Kingdom and New Zealand decisions. Not journals, textbooks or most foreign law.

The gaps matter. Of the High Court's judgments from 2015 to 2025, we hold about 3 in 10. No court is complete, so a case we don't hold may still exist.

Your library's databases carry the authorised reports, commentary and citators. JADE says university students typically get JADE Professional free, and it lets you upload a legal document and check its citations. If that does the job for you, you don't need CaseSharp.

CaseSharp does one job: it checks the case citations in your own draft against our records, free, and links you to each judgment.

The check matches facts, such as a case's name, year, report and court, and writes nothing. One step uses machine learning that isn't generative: when you search by a case name, or a footnote names a case, a search-ranking service can put the closest records first. If your unit bans all AI tools, ask your convenor before you use it.

Generative features, such as AI chat, are switched off for free accounts and for every account created from 13 October 2026.

The rule can differ between universities, units and even assessments in the same unit, so read the one for the assessment you're working on. Until you know, treat it as no AI. If the rule is unclear, ask your convenor or tutor first.

Using AI or a tool that an assessment doesn't allow, or not declaring one when you must, can be treated as academic misconduct.

CaseSharp does not write assignments. It checks the case citations in a draft you wrote and links you to the judgments behind them. It doesn't rewrite, suggest or change anything in your work.

We never tell your university, your lecturers or anyone else that you used CaseSharp, and CaseSharp has no partnerships with any university. Whether you declare it is up to your unit's rules, and we suggest you do.

That is usually a first footnote, a declaration after your reference list or a cover sheet. Name the tool, what you used it for and how often, and that you read each case yourself.

The AI rules page has wording to copy and edit. With a free account, the check also drafts a note from a fixed template for you to edit.

Secure assessments are usually done without outside tools. If the instructions don't say, ask your convenor before the exam.

A free account checks the case citations in 3 different drafts each calendar month, Sydney time, and rechecks of the same draft are free. It costs A$0, doesn't ask for a card and has no trial that ends.

New paid plans are paused, so there is nothing to buy. If you already subscribe, nothing changes.

Change the text, even one footnote, and it is a new draft. Checking exactly the same text again doesn't count, and nor does a draft with no case citations, or a check that fails on our side before it looks up a case.

Your 3 drafts start again on the first day of each month, Sydney time.

Paste up to 10 footnotes. A guest check needs no account and stores nothing. A free account adds whole drafts and files, a saved record of your check and a draft disclosure note.

A free account stays open until you delete it, during your degree and after it, with the checks you saved. Your university's database licences are different, so ask your library what you keep as a graduate.

An accepted in-app request ends access immediately and schedules permanent account deletion after 30 days. You can download your data first.

We read the text you paste or upload on our servers in Sydney to find its case citations, and only the citation strings are looked up. Case names can go to a search-ranking service in the United States to find the closest record, without your draft.

If a check fails, an error report sent to the United States can include part of the draft.

A check you save keeps your draft text until you delete it. If you don't save a check, we keep only a one-way fingerprint of the draft to count your drafts, not the text. A guest check stores nothing.

We never use your drafts to train AI models, and we never sell them.

The citation check, case search and case pages all work on a phone. A long draft is easier to upload or paste on a laptop.

CaseSharp is a product of Matter Desk Pty Ltd (ABN 39 697 017 502), built in Sydney. It is independent and has no partnerships with any university.

It is a research and study tool, not legal advice. For help with a legal problem of your own, contact a community legal centre or Legal Aid in your state.