How we verify
The editorial policy describes the standard. Every legal figure on this site is held to it. This page follows one of them all the way through, so you can judge the standard rather than take our word for it.
What this covers
The same rule governs every figure we publish: a deadline, a penalty tier, a diversion program, a courthouse. Nothing appears on a page until someone has read it out of the primary source.
Today that is 44 legal figures and 1,468 court records across Arizona, Missouri, Nevada, Oregon, Pennsylvania and Texas. The example below is one of them, picked as the most recently checked rather than the most flattering.
One figure, followed through: Texas
On the Texas pages we tell you that you have 15 calendar days to request a hearing about your license after a DWI arrest, counted from the date the notice was served.
That is a number with consequences. Get it wrong by a day and someone loses their license without anyone reviewing whether they should have. So here is where every part of it came from.
Where it came from
- Statute
- Tex. Transp. Code 524.031
- Published by
- Texas Legislature
- Document
- Texas Transportation Code chapter 524, administrative license suspension
- Retrieved on
- October 13, 2026
- Verified on
- October 14, 2026
- Verified by
- Khris
- Next review
- October 13, 2027
Every value in that table is read from the same record that produces the figure itself. It is not a description of our process written separately from the data. If the record changes, this page changes with it.
What each step actually means
Retrieved. The statutory text was fetched from the official publisher above and read. Not a summary of it, not another site’s description of it, and not a recollection of what it says.
Verified. A person compared the figure against that text and set the flag. Before that flag is set the record is invisible to visitors, and that is enforced by the database rather than by page code, so a bug cannot expose an unchecked figure.
Next review. The date this record gets read again from scratch. Deadlines are reviewed more often than background explanation, because they are the figures that hurt people fastest when they go stale.
What we do not do
We do not fill gaps with an estimate. Where a figure has not been verified, the page shows nothing at all in that spot rather than a placeholder, a range, or a hedge.
We also do not compute a calendar date for you where the statute counts in business days, because weekend and holiday treatment is its own question in the text. Where that applies, we show the figure and the citation and say plainly that the date needs working out with a lawyer.
Check it yourself
The citation is right there, and so is the link to the publisher. Please do check. If the text says something different from what we have published, we want to hear about it today.