Research

Overview

Every legal answer has to show where it comes from. Checking that usually means opening the statute, the decision, or your own file, finding the right passage, and then following the references it contains.

Research with Noxtua does it all in one place. Noxtua reads your documents in full, looks up the legal sources, and adds a numbered citation to each statement. Click a citation, and the source opens beside the chat, scrolled to the exact passage and highlighted. From there, you can switch to the answer's other citations.

Where it lives: In the chat of the Noxtua web app, in your Personal space, and inside projects.

How it connects: Citations work the same way for legal sources and for files you upload, including files in a Project. Answers from a Skill, such as contract review, cite their sources the same way. Copy replaces each citation with the source’s title in brackets, so a pasted answer still makes sense in a memo. Export chat creates a Word document with numbered citations and a list of sources at the end.

What you can use this for

• Verify an answer before you rely on it. Click each citation to read the passage it cites, highlighted in the full text of the statute, decision, or commentary.

• Find the clause that matters in a long document. Ask about a 200-page contract or filing, and jump straight to the cited passage on its page instead of scrolling.

• Follow the line of authority. Open a decision, then click the norms and decisions it references. Each one opens in the same viewer, so you can trace the chain step by step.

• Review a contract against the law. Ask whether a clause complies with a statute. The answer cites both your contract and the provision, and you can open them one after the other.

• Hand over the research with its sources. Copy the answer, and each citation becomes the source's title in brackets, for example, "(BGB § 823)". Export the chat to get a Word document with numbered citations and a list of sources.

How it works

The flow has four steps: get a cited answer, open a source in full, move between citations, and follow links within a source.

1. Get a cited answer

Purpose: See which source supports each statement while you read.

1. In the chat, check the Jurisdiction selector. It is fixed for the chat once the first answer arrives.

2. Add your documents if the question concerns them: click + or type @, then choose Upload from computer or from a document already in the chat or project.

3. Ask your question, then press Enter. The timeline above the answer shows what Noxtua is reading and searching for.

4. In the answer, look for the small numbered markers after each statement. A legal source's marker carries the publisher's mark.

5. Under the answer, a list such as 3 sources used shows each cited source once, in the same order as the markers appear.

Result: Every statement that relies on a source includes a marker. Only sources the answer actually cites are listed, while all sources Noxtua checked before the final answer are listed under the thinking process of each output. While the answer is still being written, a marker can display a spinner until the source is confirmed.

2. Preview a citation and open the full text

Purpose: Quickly check the cited passage, then read it in context.

1. Point at a marker (or move to it with Tab). A preview card displays the source's title, type, and the cited passage.

2. To read more, click Read more on the card or click the marker itself.

3. The source opens in the viewer next to the chat. Noxtua scrolls to the cited passage and highlights it.

4. For a legal source, the header displays the source type, court, decision date, and file reference, where available. Click Open publisher original (new tab) to view it on the publisher's website.

5. To close the viewer, click × in the viewer's header.

Result: You read the passage in the source's full text, not as an isolated snippet. The marker you opened remains highlighted in the answer.

3. View the other citations

Purpose: Check all sources of an answer, or of the entire chat, one after the other.

1. With the viewer open, click another marker in the answer. The viewer switches to that source and its passage. The current source remains visible until the next one has loaded.

2. Or click a source in the sources used list below the answer.

3. To view all sources cited in this chat, open the side panel (In this chat) and expand Sources. Sources are grouped into Legislation, Court decisions, Commentary, Journal articles, Soft law, and your uploads.

4. Each source in the panel shows the citation numbers for the newest answer that cites it. Click a number to open the source at that passage.

Result: You can work through every citation without losing your place. The source on screen is highlighted in the panel, and its marker is scrolled into view in the answer.

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