See a Philippine case in full: Visual Digest and Citation Map

What's new in this release

Sharper case-law search

Case-Law Analytics — Intellegal's search for Philippine jurisprudence — now brings back the decisions a question actually calls for far more completely. In our internal evaluation, it found about 50% more of the on-point cases than the previous version — so fewer relevant decisions slip through.

A smarter Law Explorer

Law Explorer — Intellegal's search for Philippine statutes and issuances — now finds the specific legal provision you need even from a broad, plain-language description. A general concept returns the on-point provisions rather than a pile of look-alikes. In our internal evaluation, it surfaced about 50% more of the relevant results than the previous version.

Case research, visualized

And every decision now opens onto two visualization tools built into its full text — a real lift for how quickly you can study a case. Visual Digest distills a decision into its summary and renders it as a timeline, a reasoning (logic) diagram, a legal-concept map, and an entity-relationship graph. Citation Map draws the case's web of authority — the cases it cites, the statutes it applies, and the legal principles it turns on; hover any node to preview that authority at a glance, and click it to open the original. The rest of this article walks through both.

Visual Digest: understand a decision, inside out

Visual Digest turns a full court decision into a set of structured, visual views — so you can grasp a long judgment in minutes without losing the ability to check the original word for word.

A structured summary and the key facts

The Summary view opens with a plain-language AI Summary of the decision, followed by a Key Highlights card that lifts out the essentials as their own fields — the parties, the case number, the date, the court, the ruling, a risk read, and the key exhibits. It's the whole shape of a case at a glance, before you commit to the full text.

A timeline of what happened

The Case Timeline lays out the events in order — the facts, the procedural steps, and the deadlines — each tagged to the party behind it and filterable by side. Instead of reconstructing the sequence yourself from a dense narrative, you see how the case actually unfolded, date by date.

The court's reasoning, mapped

The Logic Diagram maps the ruling as a reasoning tree: the disposition at the top, each issue and how it was decided, and beneath each one, the statutes, legal principles, and factual findings that support it. This is what makes the tool explainable — you don't just see what the court decided, you see the structure of why.

Go deeper: the argument and the parties

Open More Graph for two further views. The Legal Concept Map is an argument graph in which every edge is a labelled legal relationship — a claim supported by evidence, a defense that rebuts it, an issue resolved by a holding — so you can see how the whole argument hangs together. The Entity-Relationship Graph is a who's-who of the case — the parties, the courts, the instruments — showing who relates to whom and how.

Together, these views let you read a decision from the inside out — Visual Digest is the fastest way to understand a case without giving up the ability to verify it.

Citation Map: a decision's place in the web of jurisprudence

What is a Citation Map?

A citation map is an interactive diagram that places a single court decision at the center and draws out the authorities connected to it — the cases it relates to, the statutes it applies, and the legal doctrines it turns on. Instead of reading a decision in isolation, you see it inside its network.

Take a Dangerous Drugs Act appeal like People v. Abedin. Its Citation Map puts the ruling at the center, ranges the statutes it applies (the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act, RA 9165) across the top, the doctrines it turns on — chain of custody, the integrity of seized items, the presumption of regularity — along the bottom, and the web of related drug cases around it, each colour-coded.

Three dimensions in one view: cases, statutes, and doctrines

The map reads in three dimensions at once:

• Cases sit around the center, colour-coded — granted, denied, partly granted, or other — so you can see at a glance how related rulings came out.
• Statutes line the top row — the laws and provisions a decision relies on, when it rests on them.
• Doctrines and principles line the bottom row — the legal concepts a case turns on.

And the links tell you why nodes connect: one case cites another, two rulings share a statute, or they share a principle. The relationship is never left implicit — the map shows its reasoning.

Go as deep as your question needs

The Citation Map opens at a focused first level and expands to a second and third level, widening the network from a case's immediate authorities out to the broader body of related jurisprudence. Start narrow to answer one question, or go deep to map an entire line of cases.

Every node is traceable to its source

Hover any node and it shows the title, the key points, and a link to open the original. Every case and every statute on the map opens to its primary text — the actual decision or the verbatim law. Nothing is a dead end: this is what makes the map traceable and verifiable — you open the source and read it yourself.

Grounded in real sources — and built to be checked

Here's the part that matters most, and it's true of both tools. Everything they surface is drawn from real Philippine legal material — the actual decision in front of you, real cases, real statutes you can open and read. Nothing is an invented citation. That's the whole point: to save you time without ever putting a fabricated authority in front of you.

And we're honest about what's AI-assisted. Both Visual Digest and Citation Map carry a plain notice that their generated content is for reference and should be verified against the official documents — and both give you the link to do exactly that. We don't ask you to trust the output; we build it so you can check it. That's the difference between a black box and a research tool: not a claim that the machine is never wrong, but a design where the source is always one click away.

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