Jobs · Lithuanian advocate, associate or in-house counsel

Can I rely on this ruling?

Opposing counsel cites a ruling.

A one-page note: whether the ruling is held, its instance chain, who cited it since, whether the acts it rests on still hold.

The run

One real run of this job against Avokata's live service. The steps are the playbooks it chains; open one to see each tool call, its arguments and what came back.

1. Signed in and read the account

   1 tool call, 0 s

   Tools used

   Avokatawhoami0.0 s

   Call 1: whoami with

   {}

   {"connected": true, "email": "jobs-avokata-rely2@example.test", "via": "bearer", "jurisdiction": "LT", "usage": {"tier": "free", "quotas": {"search_per_day": {"used": 0, "limit": 20, "remaining": 20}, "paragraph_reads_per_day": {"used": 0, "limit": 40, "remaining": 40}, "citation_walks_per_day": {"used": 0, "limit": 10, "remaining": 10}, "validity_checks_per_day": {"used": 0, "limit": 15, "remaining": 15}, "list_updates_per_day": {"used": 0, "limit": 5, "remaining": 5}, "matter_profiles_max": {"used": 0, "limit": 1, "remaining": 1}}, "data_delay_hours": 24}, "corpus": {"LT": true, "EU": true}, "data_as_of": "2026-09-23T15:33:40+00:00", "note": "This tier serves data delayed by 24 hours. Anyt …

2. Can I still cite this case?

   7 tool calls, 25 s

   Tools used

   Avokataget_workflow0.0 s

   Call 2: get_workflow with

   {"workflow_id": "can-i-rely-on-this"}

   {"workflow_id": "can-i-rely-on-this", "title": "Can I rely on this ruling?", "one_line": "A case number in: later citations, cited acts checked, instance chain named honestly where we cannot automate it.", "body": "# Can I rely on this ruling?\n\n**Draft. Written by a builder, not a lawyer.** Correct it.\n\nThe lawyer names a **case number** and needs to know whether she can still cite that\njudgment: whether later courts have engaged with it, whether the acts it rests on still\nhold, and where the record stops.\n\nThis is the verification workflow Teisora lacks. **Tool chain only**, no opinion on\nwhether she should cite it.\n\n## Do this\n\n1. **Resolve the ruling.** `verify_citation` with …

   Avokataverify_citation0.1 s

   Call 3: verify_citation with

   {"citation": "e3K-3-215-421/2024"}

   {"citation": "e3K-3-215-421/2024", "quote_checked": false, "kind": "ruling", "case_no": "e3K-3-215-421/2024", "exists": "held", "document_id": "lt.tar-nutartys:3ea60044b0cf11ef88c08519262548c4", "court": "Lietuvos Aukščiausiasis Teismas", "decided_at": "2024-11-25", "url": "https://e-tar.lt/portal/lt/legalAct/3ea60044b0cf11ef88c08519262548c4", "title": "Nuasmeninta nutartis 2024-11-25 Nr. CB-7097-2-55-3-01939-2014-4", "data_as_of": "2026-09-23T16:28:55+00:00", "data_as_of_sources": ["lt.tar-nutartys"], "note": "This tier serves data delayed by 24 hours. Anything published more recently is not in this answer.", "freshness": {"practice_as_of": "2026-09-23T19:33:16+00:00", "acts_as_of": "2026-0 …

   Avokataget_document1.3 s

   Call 4: get_document with

   {"document_id": "lt.tar-nutartys:3ea60044b0cf11ef88c08519262548c4"}

   {"document_id": "lt.tar-nutartys:3ea60044b0cf11ef88c08519262548c4", "kind": "ruling", "jurisdiction": "LT", "title": "Nuasmeninta nutartis 2024-11-25 Nr. CB-7097-2-55-3-01939-2014-4", "url": "https://e-tar.lt/portal/lt/legalAct/3ea60044b0cf11ef88c08519262548c4", "chars": 121277, "units": 128, "contents": [{"pinpoint": "e3K-3-215-421/2024, įžanginė dalis", "kind": "preamble", "heading": null, "chars": 2168, "location": []}, {"pinpoint": "e3K-3-215-421/2024, 1 p.", "kind": "paragraph", "heading": "Kasacinėje byloje sprendžiama dėl materialiosios teisės normų, reglamentuojančių rangovo ir techninio prižiūrėtojo prievolės atlyginti dėl gaisro kilusią žalą rūšį pagal deliktinės ir sutarčių teisės …

   Avokatacitations_of1.0 s

   Call 5: citations_of with

   {"document_id": "lt.tar-nutartys:3ea60044b0cf11ef88c08519262548c4", "limit": 60}

   {"document_id": "lt.tar-nutartys:3ea60044b0cf11ef88c08519262548c4", "direction": "cites", "count": 50, "resolved_count": 50, "unresolved_count": 0, "citations": [{"from": {"document_id": "lt.tar-nutartys:3ea60044b0cf11ef88c08519262548c4", "pinpoint": "e3K-3-215-421/2024, 45 p. (1/3 d.)", "kind": "ruling", "decided_at": "2024-11-25", "court": "Lietuvos Aukščiausiasis Teismas", "case_no": "e3K-3-215-421/2024", "url": "https://e-tar.lt/portal/lt/legalAct/3ea60044b0cf11ef88c08519262548c4"}, "relation": "cites_act", "to": {"document_id": "lt.e-tar:TAR.8A39C83848CB", "unit_id": "lt.e-tar:TAR.8A39C83848CB#1024", "pinpoint": "6.5 straipsnis", "act": "Civilinis kodeksas", "case_no": null, "url": "htt …

   Avokataread_paragraphs0.5 s

   Call 6: read_paragraphs with

   {"document_id": "lt.tar-nutartys:3ea60044b0cf11ef88c08519262548c4", "pinpoint": "46 p.", "count": 2}

   {"document_id": "lt.tar-nutartys:3ea60044b0cf11ef88c08519262548c4", "title": "Nuasmeninta nutartis 2024-11-25 Nr. CB-7097-2-55-3-01939-2014-4", "url": "https://e-tar.lt/portal/lt/legalAct/3ea60044b0cf11ef88c08519262548c4", "returned": 2, "total_units": 2, "next_from_unit": 51, "paragraphs": [{"pinpoint": "e3K-3-215-421/2024, 46 p. (1/2 d.)", "kind": "paragraph", "heading": "Ieškovė atsiliepimu į kasacinį skundą prašo palikti nepakeistą Lietuvos apeliacinio teismo Civilinių bylų skyriaus teisėjų kolegijos 2024 m. vasario 8 d. nutartį, o atsakovės BĮ Kultūros…", "location": ["nustatė"], "text": "46. Ieškovė atsiliepimu į kasacinį skundą prašo palikti nepakeistą Lietuvos apeliacinio teismo Civi …

   Avokatacited_by2.4 s

   Call 7: cited_by with

   {"case_no": "e3K-3-215-421/2024"}

   {"document_id": "lt.tar-nutartys:3ea60044b0cf11ef88c08519262548c4", "direction": "cited_by", "matched_on": "case_no", "count": 19, "resolved_count": 19, "unresolved_count": 0, "citations": [{"from": {"document_id": "lt.liteko:7452e010-2418-4301-8ce1-40686b5665c6", "pinpoint": "e2A-523-460/2026, 37 p.", "kind": "ruling", "decided_at": "2026-05-14", "court": "Klaipėdos apygardos teismas", "case_no": "e2A-523-460/2026", "url": "https://liteko.teismai.lt/viesasprendimupaieska/tekstas.aspx?id=7452e010-2418-4301-8ce1-40686b5665c6", "times_cited": 2}, "relation": "cites_ruling", "to": {"document_id": "lt.tar-nutartys:3ea60044b0cf11ef88c08519262548c4", "unit_id": null, "pinpoint": "e3K-3-215-421/202 …

   Avokatainstance_chain2.5 s

   Call 8: instance_chain with

   {"case_no": "e3K-3-215-421/2024"}

   {"matched_on": "case_no", "case_no": "e3K-3-215-421/2024", "proceeding_no": "2-53-3-01643-2010-0", "status": "linkable", "reason": "proceeding_no groups ≥2 instance levels with dates", "joined_via": "both", "finality": "unknown", "finality_note": "Whether an appeal is still open is not recorded in metadata; infer from later instance rulings yourself.", "held_rulings": 45, "instance_levels": ["appeal", "cassation", "first"], "chain": [{"level": "cassation", "court": "Lietuvos Aukščiausiasis Teismas", "case_no": "3K-3-283/2012", "proceeding_no": "2-53-3-01643-2010-0", "decided_at": "2012-06-08", "source": "lt.tar-nutartys", "document_id": "lt.tar-nutartys:27859c402c1211e69c3d99cd9039168e", "ur …

3. You confirm

   Confirm this is the ruling and the paragraph opposing counsel relies on.

   Recorded: Checkpoint: laikau, kad tai ta nutartis (LAT, 2024-11-25), o cituojama vieta yra 46.1 p. Tai ieškovės argumentas aprašomojoje dalyje, ne teismo motyvas. Tęsiau tikrinimą.

4. Can I still rely on this?

   1 tool call, 0 s

   Tools used

   Avokataget_workflow2.6 s

   Call 9: get_workflow with

   {"workflow_id": "still-good-law"}

   {"workflow_id": "still-good-law", "title": "Is this still good law?", "one_line": "Take a provision or a ruling and check what has happened to it since.", "body": "# Is this still good law?\n\n**Draft. Written by a builder, not a lawyer.** Correct it.\n\nThe lawyer has a provision or a ruling and wants to know whether she can still rely on it.\n\n## For a provision\n\n1. `check_validity` on the act. In force? Repealed? Which consolidated version governs?\n   **`version_coverage` says whether that last question could be answered at all.** For\n   most acts no version history is held, and a missing version is a gap in our corpus\n   rather than a fact about the law. See the provision-history w …

5. What did this article say in 2019?

   11 tool calls, 22 s

   Tools used

   Avokataget_workflow2.6 s

   Call 10: get_workflow with

   {"workflow_id": "provision-history"}

   {"workflow_id": "provision-history", "title": "What did this article say then?", "one_line": "Which consolidated version governed on a date, and what changed around it.", "body": "# What did this article say then?\n\n**Draft. Written by a builder, not a lawyer.** Correct it.\n\nWork is often about a moment in the past: the contract was signed in 2019, the act was\namended in 2021, and the question is what governed then.\n\n## Do this\n\n1. `check_validity` with `on_date` set to the date that matters. **Read\n   `version_coverage` in the answer before you say anything.** It tells you which of\n   four situations you are in, and three of them are not \"there was no version\":\n   - `never_cons …

   Avokatainstance_chain0.1 s

   Call 11: instance_chain with

   {"proceeding_no": "2-55-3-01939-2014-4"}

   {"matched_on": "proceeding_no", "case_no": null, "proceeding_no": "2-53-3-01643-2010-0", "status": "linkable", "reason": "proceeding_no groups ≥2 instance levels with dates", "joined_via": "both", "finality": "unknown", "finality_note": "Whether an appeal is still open is not recorded in metadata; infer from later instance rulings yourself.", "held_rulings": 45, "instance_levels": ["appeal", "cassation", "first"], "chain": [{"level": "cassation", "court": "Lietuvos Aukščiausiasis Teismas", "case_no": "3K-3-283/2012", "proceeding_no": "2-53-3-01643-2010-0", "decided_at": "2012-06-08", "source": "lt.tar-nutartys", "document_id": "lt.tar-nutartys:27859c402c1211e69c3d99cd9039168e", "url": "https …

   Avokatacheck_validity0.1 s

   Call 12: check_validity with

   {"document_id": "lt.e-tar:TAR.8A39C83848CB"}

   {"document_id": "lt.e-tar:TAR.8A39C83848CB", "title": "Civilinis kodeksas", "register_title": "Lietuvos Respublikos civilinio kodekso patvirtinimo, įsigaliojimo ir įgyvendinimo įstatymas. Civilinis kodeksas", "title_note": "The register publishes this code inside the statute that enacted it. `title` is the code, which is what a citation names; `register_title` is the document as e-TAR titles it, and its own articles are also in this file.", "act_number": "VIII-1864", "url": "https://e-tar.lt/portal/lt/legalAct/TAR.8A39C83848CB", "asked_about": "2026-09-23", "state": "in_force", "register_status": "galioja", "in_force_from": "2000-09-06", "in_force_to": null, "status_discriminates": false, "c …

   Avokatacheck_validity0.1 s

   Call 13: check_validity with

   {"document_id": "lt.e-tar:TAR.2E7C18F61454"}

   {"document_id": "lt.e-tar:TAR.2E7C18F61454", "title": "Civilinio proceso kodeksas", "register_title": "Lietuvos Respublikos civilinio proceso kodekso patvirtinimo, įsigaliojimo ir įgyvendinimo įstatymas. Civilinio proceso kodeksas", "title_note": "The register publishes this code inside the statute that enacted it. `title` is the code, which is what a citation names; `register_title` is the document as e-TAR titles it, and its own articles are also in this file.", "act_number": "IX-743", "url": "https://e-tar.lt/portal/lt/legalAct/TAR.2E7C18F61454", "asked_about": "2026-09-23", "state": "in_force", "register_status": "galioja", "in_force_from": "2002-04-06", "in_force_to": null, "status_disc …

   Avokatacheck_validity0.1 s

   Call 14: check_validity with

   {"document_id": "lt.e-tar:TAR.2B866DFF7D43"}

   {"document_id": "lt.e-tar:TAR.2B866DFF7D43", "title": "Baudžiamasis kodeksas", "register_title": "Lietuvos Respublikos baudžiamojo kodekso patvirtinimo ir įsigaliojimo įstatymas. Baudžiamasis kodeksas", "title_note": "The register publishes this code inside the statute that enacted it. `title` is the code, which is what a citation names; `register_title` is the document as e-TAR titles it, and its own articles are also in this file.", "act_number": "VIII-1968", "url": "https://e-tar.lt/portal/lt/legalAct/TAR.2B866DFF7D43", "asked_about": "2026-09-23", "state": "in_force", "register_status": "galioja", "in_force_from": "2000-10-25", "in_force_to": null, "status_discriminates": false, "conditi …

   Avokatacheck_validity0.1 s

   Call 15: check_validity with

   {"document_id": "lt.e-tar:TAR.F31E79DEC55D"}

   {"document_id": "lt.e-tar:TAR.F31E79DEC55D", "title": "Lietuvos Respublikos statybos įstatymas", "act_number": "I-1240", "url": "https://e-tar.lt/portal/lt/legalAct/TAR.F31E79DEC55D", "asked_about": "2026-09-23", "state": "in_force", "register_status": "galioja", "in_force_from": "1996-09-01", "in_force_to": null, "status_discriminates": false, "conditional_force": "1996-09-01", "governing_version": {"version_id": "oTFbLJicAa", "valid_from": "2025-11-01", "valid_to": null, "url": "https://e-tar.lt/portal/lt/legalAct/TAR.F31E79DEC55D/oTFbLJicAa"}, "versions_held": 69, "version_coverage": {"status": "named", "held": 69, "earliest_held": "1997-06-26", "latest_held": "2025-11-01"}, "note": "The  …

   Avokatacheck_validity0.1 s

   Call 16: check_validity with

   {"document_id": "lt.e-tar:TAR.8A39C83848CB", "on_date": "2024-11-25"}

   {"document_id": "lt.e-tar:TAR.8A39C83848CB", "title": "Civilinis kodeksas", "register_title": "Lietuvos Respublikos civilinio kodekso patvirtinimo, įsigaliojimo ir įgyvendinimo įstatymas. Civilinis kodeksas", "title_note": "The register publishes this code inside the statute that enacted it. `title` is the code, which is what a citation names; `register_title` is the document as e-TAR titles it, and its own articles are also in this file.", "act_number": "VIII-1864", "url": "https://e-tar.lt/portal/lt/legalAct/TAR.8A39C83848CB", "asked_about": "2024-11-25", "state": "in_force", "register_status": "galioja", "in_force_from": "2000-09-06", "in_force_to": null, "status_discriminates": false, "c …

   Avokatacheck_validity0.1 s

   Call 17: check_validity with

   {"document_id": "lt.e-tar:TAR.2E7C18F61454", "on_date": "2024-11-25"}

   {"document_id": "lt.e-tar:TAR.2E7C18F61454", "title": "Civilinio proceso kodeksas", "register_title": "Lietuvos Respublikos civilinio proceso kodekso patvirtinimo, įsigaliojimo ir įgyvendinimo įstatymas. Civilinio proceso kodeksas", "title_note": "The register publishes this code inside the statute that enacted it. `title` is the code, which is what a citation names; `register_title` is the document as e-TAR titles it, and its own articles are also in this file.", "act_number": "IX-743", "url": "https://e-tar.lt/portal/lt/legalAct/TAR.2E7C18F61454", "asked_about": "2024-11-25", "state": "in_force", "register_status": "galioja", "in_force_from": "2002-04-06", "in_force_to": null, "status_disc …

   Avokatacheck_validity0.1 s

   Call 18: check_validity with

   {"document_id": "lt.e-tar:TAR.2B866DFF7D43", "on_date": "2024-11-25"}

   {"document_id": "lt.e-tar:TAR.2B866DFF7D43", "title": "Baudžiamasis kodeksas", "register_title": "Lietuvos Respublikos baudžiamojo kodekso patvirtinimo ir įsigaliojimo įstatymas. Baudžiamasis kodeksas", "title_note": "The register publishes this code inside the statute that enacted it. `title` is the code, which is what a citation names; `register_title` is the document as e-TAR titles it, and its own articles are also in this file.", "act_number": "VIII-1968", "url": "https://e-tar.lt/portal/lt/legalAct/TAR.2B866DFF7D43", "asked_about": "2024-11-25", "state": "in_force", "register_status": "galioja", "in_force_from": "2000-10-25", "in_force_to": null, "status_discriminates": false, "conditi …

   Avokatacheck_validity0.1 s

   Call 19: check_validity with

   {"document_id": "lt.e-tar:TAR.F31E79DEC55D", "on_date": "2024-11-25"}

   {"document_id": "lt.e-tar:TAR.F31E79DEC55D", "title": "Lietuvos Respublikos statybos įstatymas", "act_number": "I-1240", "url": "https://e-tar.lt/portal/lt/legalAct/TAR.F31E79DEC55D", "asked_about": "2024-11-25", "state": "in_force", "register_status": "galioja", "in_force_from": "1996-09-01", "in_force_to": null, "status_discriminates": false, "conditional_force": "1996-09-01", "governing_version": {"version_id": "qFAevnsSco", "valid_from": "2024-11-02", "valid_to": "2024-12-31", "url": "https://e-tar.lt/portal/lt/legalAct/TAR.F31E79DEC55D/qFAevnsSco"}, "versions_held": 69, "version_coverage": {"status": "named", "held": 69, "earliest_held": "1997-06-26", "latest_held": "2025-11-01"}, "note …

   Avokataread_paragraphs0.3 s

   Call 20: read_paragraphs with

   {"document_id": "lt.e-tar:TAR.8A39C83848CB", "article": "1.125", "count": 1}

   {"document_id": "lt.e-tar:TAR.8A39C83848CB", "title": "Civilinis kodeksas", "register_title": "Lietuvos Respublikos civilinio kodekso patvirtinimo, įsigaliojimo ir įgyvendinimo įstatymas. Civilinis kodeksas", "title_note": "The register publishes this code inside the statute that enacted it. `title` is the code, which is what a citation names; `register_title` is the document as e-TAR titles it, and its own articles are also in this file.", "url": "https://e-tar.lt/portal/lt/legalAct/TAR.8A39C83848CB", "version": {"is": "in_force_now", "version_id": "RQqxysUdFp", "valid_from": "2026-04-01", "valid_from_scope": "act_consolidated", "note": "The register carries this act as in force, and this i …

6. Wrote the document from the results

   46 s, no tool calls

What it handed back

These are sources, not a legal conclusion. The lawyer draws the conclusion.

Start it yourself

Connect Avokata to Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor (how), then paste this line followed by your own facts.

Naudok Avokata ir atlik darbą job-rely-on-ruling: ar galima remtis žemiau nurodyta nutartimi?

Where you decide

• Confirm this is the ruling and the paragraph opposing counsel relies on.

What it will not do

• Conclude that the ruling is or is not good law
• Infer finality from the instance chain
• Read the later rulings for the lawyer

The scenario

The situation in this run is invented. This is exactly what the assistant was asked, including the job instructions it was given (the job ships to every client as the MCP prompt job-rely-on-ruling):

Naudok Avokata ir atlik darbą job-rely-on-ruling: ar galima remtis žemiau nurodyta nutartimi?

The situation (illustrative):
Situacija išgalvota, skirta demonstracijai. Kita šalis ieškinio senaties ginče remiasi Lietuvos Aukščiausiojo Teismo 2024 m. lapkričio 25 d. nutartimi civilinėje byloje Nr. e3K-3-215-421/2024, jos dalimi apie CK 1.125 straipsnio 8 dalį. Ar galime remtis šia nutartimi, ar ją galima nuginčyti? Prie kontrolinio taško manęs nelauk: tai ta nutartis.

Ši sesija jau prijungta prie Avokata su bandomąja paskyra; pradėk nuo whoami. Atsakyk lietuviškai.

Work it as the job "Can I rely on this ruling: a one-page reliance note". Read each playbook with get_workflow and follow it, in this order: can-i-rely-on-this, still-good-law, provision-history. The job's own instructions follow.

lang: en
# Can I rely on this ruling: a one-page reliance note

Sources, not advice. **Draft, written by a builder, not a lawyer.** Correct it and it gets replaced.

## When

Opposing counsel has cited a ruling. You are running a whole job: it ends with a one-page reliance note in Lithuanian. Work in Lithuanian unless she writes in English.

## Run

1. **Resolve and read the ruling.** Read `get_workflow('can-i-rely-on-this')` and do its steps 1 and 2: `verify_citation` with the case number, or `search_practice` with the exact number. If it is not held, say so and stop: zero later citations of a ruling we do not hold means nothing. Keep the court, `decided_at` and `document_id`. `read_paragraphs` on the paragraph relied on, if one was named, by its number; ask for a `ruling_part` only when the ruling's structure lists it, because many published rulings are not split into parts.
2. **Later practice and the instance chain.** Steps 3 and 6 of the same playbook: `cited_by(case_no=...)` and `instance_chain(case_no=...)`. Report `rulings_total`, the newest citing rulings with dates, and which instances are held.
3. **The foundations.** Read `get_workflow('still-good-law')` and `get_workflow('provision-history')`. `citations_of` on the ruling, then `check_validity` on each act it cites; where an act changed after the ruling, `check_validity` with `on_date` set to the ruling's date, to say which version the court read.

## Checkpoints

- After step 1: she confirms this is the ruling and the paragraph. Say back the court, the date and the paragraph found.

## Deliverable

```
Pažyma: ar galima remtis nutartimi <bylos Nr.>
<teismas>, <data>. Duomenys: <data_as_of>.

1. Ar nutartis turima: ir kuris punktas cituojamas.
2. Instancijų grandinė: kas turima, ko trūksta.
3. Vėlesnė praktika: <kiek> nutarčių ją cituoja; naujausios su bylų Nr. ir datomis.
4. Pagrindai: kiekvienas cituotas aktas ir jo galiojimas; kas pasikeitė nuo nutarties.
5. Ko Avokata nefiksuoja: ar vėlesnis teismas pritarė, atribojo ar nukrypo.
```

## Quality

- Every case number, date, count and act comes from a tool result in this conversation.
- Every cited act is checked with `check_validity`.
- States what the citation graph does not record, and `data_as_of`.

## Will not

- Conclude that the ruling is, or is not, good law.
- Infer finality from the instance chain.
- Read the later rulings for her; it hands her the list.

This run is recorded without a person present. At each checkpoint, write one line that starts with "Checkpoint:" stating what you are assuming, then continue. End with the finished work product.

Recorded 2026-09-23. Every tool call, provision, case number, date and quotation on this page is what Avokata's live service returned in that run; nothing was edited except by trimming long tool results. Source file: content/jobs/rely-on-ruling.run.json.