Disclaimers — what this site is, and is not

Descriptive, never predictive

Every number and summary here is a count or description of decided, public cases— what judges already did. Nothing here is a prediction, probability, score, or assessment of any pending or future case, including yours. Past patterns don’t decide new cases; a judge does, on the specific record in front of them.

Not legal advice

This site never tells you what you should do. Reading it, uploading to it, or purchasing from it does not create an attorney–client relationship. For advice about your own situation, consult a licensed attorney. One descriptive fact from the record, offered neutrally: in decided hearings, represented applicants were granted at a higher rate than self-represented applicants (details on the patterns page).

Not the government

This is a private research tool. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to DOHA, DCSA, DoD, or any part of the U.S. Government. The underlying decisions are public records; everything built on top of them is ours.

Known limits of the data

• Coverage: the corpus is the published public record. Some years — roughly 2010–2017 for hearing decisions — are thin in the public archive itself, and the site says so where it matters.
• Redactions: published decisions are redacted by the government; some details are simply not in the record.
• Extraction accuracy: summaries and standardized facts are machine-extracted and then verified by sampling audits and automated grounding checks (see About & Methodology). Anything below our confidence bar is flagged on the page rather than presented as fact — and every case page links the original PDF so you can check the source yourself.
• “Mentions” ≠ “is about”: a search counts decisions whose text matches your words; a case can mention a topic without turning on it.

See an error?

Accuracy is the product. If a summary or figure looks wrong, use the contact address (published at launch) and include the case number — reports are checked against the original decision and corrected.