S01¶


Research	R0050 — Journalism and Other Truth-Seeking Disciplines
Run	2026-03-31
Query	Q002
Search	S01

WebSearch + WebFetch — Legal standards of proof and evidence evaluation

Summary¶

Field	Value
Source/Database	WebSearch + WebFetch
Query terms	(1) "legal standards of proof hierarchy evidence evaluation" (2) "Federal Rules of Evidence hierarchy relevance reliability" (3) WebFetch of Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy legal evidence entry
Filters	None
Results returned	20 (search) + 1 (fetch)
Results selected	2
Results rejected	19

Selected Results¶

Result	Title	URL	Rationale
S01-R01	Burden of proof (law) — Wikipedia	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burden_of_proof_(law)	Comprehensive overview of standards of proof hierarchy
S01-R02	The Legal Concept of Evidence — Stanford Encyclopedia	https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/evidence-legal/	Authoritative philosophical analysis of legal evidence concepts

Rejected Results¶

Result	Title	URL	Rationale
S01-R03	Various legal explainer sites	Multiple URLs	Simplified legal explainers that add nothing beyond the selected sources

Notes¶

The Stanford Encyclopedia entry provided the most analytically useful content, with explicit comparison of legal evidence concepts to scientific evidence evaluation. This was the highest-value source for identifying genuinely novel concepts.