case-briefer
Produces detailed law-school case briefs of United States judicial opinions in a fixed nine-section structure: memory jogger, facts, procedural history, judicial votes, holding, opinion-by-opinion analysis, five future-application hypotheticals, critique, and verified key quotations. Also builds vote tables, cross-case consistency tables, perspective-based critiques, and LaTeX in article, Beamer and casebook-chapter formats. Use whenever someone asks to brief a case, analyse or explain an opinion, summarise a decision for students, generate hypotheticals from a holding, critique a judgment, ta
npx skills add lawve-ai/awesome-legal-skills --skill case-briefer-seth-chandler --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# Case Briefer Deliver detailed case briefs with comprehensive analysis, examples, and critique for law students and professors. ## Core Case Brief Structure Every case brief includes these 9 sections: ### 1. Memory Jogger One sentence capturing the case's essence — its facts, central holding, or most salient feature. - Example for *Carolene Products*: "Footnote 4 establishes justification for tiers of scrutiny." ### 2. Detailed Case Facts Include: - Key facts giving rise to the dispute - Relevant statutes, regulations, or constitutional provisions - Explain the statutory scheme and specific provisions challenged - Historical or political context when relevant ### 3. Procedural History Focus on procedural aspects relevant to disposition: - Lower court rulings and reasoning - Basis for appeal - Note distinctions like "the court did not rule plaintiffs prevailed, merely that they pled enough to survive a motion to dismiss" ### 4. Judicial Votes Group by: - **Majority**: Author and joining justices/judges - **Concurrence(s)**: Author(s) and any joining justices/judges - **Dissent(s)**: Author(s) and any joining justices/judges ### 5. Holding Succinct statement of the court's judgment
- Core Case Brief Structure
- 1. Memory Jogger
- 2. Detailed Case Facts
- 3. Procedural History
- 4. Judicial Votes
- 5. Holding
- 6. Analysis of Opinions
- 7. Examples: Future Applications
- 8. Critique
- 9. Key Quotations
- Verification
- Tone and Quality Standards
- Additional Capabilities
- General Discussion
What does the case-briefer skill do?
Produces detailed law-school case briefs of United States judicial opinions in a fixed nine-section structure: memory jogger, facts, procedural history, judicial votes, holding, opinion-by-opinion analysis, five future-application hypotheticals, critique, and verified key quotations. Also builds vote tables, cross-case consistency tables, perspective-based critiques, and LaTeX in article, Beamer and casebook-chapter formats. Use whenever someone asks to brief a case, analyse or explain an opinion, summarise a decision for students, generate hypotheticals from a holding, critique a judgment, ta
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add lawve-ai/awesome-legal-skills --skill case-briefer-seth-chandler --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From lawve-ai/awesome-legal-skills, a repository with 618 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.