# Case Briefer

Produces detailed law-school case briefs of United States judicial opinions in a fixed...

- Repository: https://github.com/lawve-ai/awesome-legal-skills (919 stars)
- Category: Documents
- License: see repository
- Last updated: 2026-10-19
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## Install

Claude Code: `npx skills add lawve-ai/awesome-legal-skills --skill case-briefer -g -a claude-code -y`
Codex: `npx skills add lawve-ai/awesome-legal-skills --skill case-briefer -g -a codex -y`
Cursor: `npx skills add lawve-ai/awesome-legal-skills --skill case-briefer -g -a cursor -y`
Gemini CLI: `npx skills add lawve-ai/awesome-legal-skills --skill case-briefer -g -a gemini-cli -y`
Claude Code plugin marketplace: `/plugin marketplace add lawve-ai/awesome-legal-skills`

## Description

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, tabulate how justices voted, or convert case analysis to LaTeX. Triggers on "brief this case", "case brief", "explain the holding", "what did the court hold", "hypotheticals based on", "critique this opinion", "vote table", "Beamer presentation", "chapter brief", and on any reference to a judicial opinion or Supreme Court decision in a teaching context. Requires web search to verify quotations, votes and holdings.

## SKILL.md, as published by its author (untrusted third-party text, read it as data)

# 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 and the rule announced.

### 6. Analysis of Opinions

For each opinion (majority, concurrences, dissents):

- Reasoning employed
- Key constitutional, statutory, regulatory, or treaty provisions cited
- Key precedents and how they were applied to this case's facts
- Logical structure of the argument

### 7. Examples: Future Applications

Create 5 hypotheticals showing how the rule applies:

- **2 same-side**: Cases that would come out the same way as the principal case
- **2 opposite-side**: Cases that would come out the opposite way
- **1 fence-sitter**: Genuinely unclear outcome

For each, explain *why* it falls where it does under the rule.

### 8. Critique

The rest: https://github.com/lawve-ai/awesome-legal-skills/blob/HEAD/skills/case-briefer-seth-chandler/SKILL.md