Treat each searchable item as an exact corpus record. Honesty note: simplified toy corpus; jurisdictions vary; the pinned first step states the as-of date; not legal advice; retrieval points to sources and does not answer the legal question.
highlighted = computed this step
Retrieval honesty note
Honesty note: simplified toy corpus; jurisdictions vary; as of June 24, 2026; not legal advice; retrieval points to sources and does not answer the legal question.
toy corpus as of June24,2026
Start with fixed source records
The process rule is record first. Each searchable item carries a source label, citation, jurisdiction, as-of date, source type, and body text before any query runs.
record model=source plus citation plus body
Example corpus and query
The toy corpus has 4 records. The example query is citation source record, and the first record cites US Const. art. VI cl. 2.
records=4
The engine recomputes record tokens
The query normalizes to citation, source, record. The first body has 11 normalized tokens, recomputed from the body text.
first body tokens=11
Diagram note
The table shows records and recomputed token metadata. A row is a source pointer, not a legal answer.
support rows=4
Jurisdiction: US; as of 2026-06-24; not legal advice; Code encodes the stated-rule interpretation.
Summary
A retrieval book begins with exact corpus rows. Later matching can only point back to these pinned records.