The Jacob Score™ is a 0–100 composite litigation investment signal that tells plaintiff attorneys where a tort stands today — not six months ago. It is computed nightly from live court filing data, FDA regulatory signals, news velocity, and signal recency, blended with expert editorial judgment. One number. Forty-two torts. Updated every two hours.
Court filing velocity over the last 30 days versus the prior 30 days. Accelerating dockets score higher. Verdict and settlement events apply maximum bonus weight — they are the clearest signal that a tort is producing results.
FDA regulatory weight: recalls, Class I/II actions, adverse event accumulation from FAERS. Strong science is the prerequisite for surviving Daubert — torts with peer-reviewed causation and FDA action score highest.
News volume, alert-level distribution, and total signal health. High campaign scores indicate an active media and legal ecosystem — the conditions that produce qualified claimants at scale. High-alert signals apply bonus weight.
Recency of the last meaningful signal. Torts with activity in the last 7 days score 100 on this dimension. Torts that have gone quiet for 90+ days score 15. Timeline is the staleness detector — it prevents dead torts from holding inflated scores.
Live signal data takes time to accumulate. A tort that filed into D1 yesterday has 3 signals — not enough to compute a meaningful composite. The seed blend anchors scores to editorial judgment while live data builds up. As signals accumulate, the engine trusts its own data more.
The editorial seed baseline represents Jacob Malherbe's expert assessment of each tort as of March 2026, drawing on 15+ years in plaintiff mass tort marketing and $250M+ in managed ad spend across 600+ law firms. It is not a static number — it updates as the engine accumulates data and as litigation facts materially change.
The Jacob Score™ is not a legal opinion. It does not predict case outcomes, settlement values, or litigation results. It is a business intelligence signal designed to help plaintiff law firms prioritize intake marketing spend — nothing more. All scores carry the standard TortIntel disclaimer: not legal advice, not financial advice, for informational purposes only.
The Jacob Score Engine™ runs every two hours, immediately after the signal ingestion pipeline completes. Each run pulls fresh data from the oracle_signals D1 table, recomputes all four dimensions for every active tort, blends with the editorial seed, and writes the result back. The score you see on any tort page is never more than two hours old.
The Jacob Score™ is displayed on every tort intelligence page. Pro subscribers see full dimension breakdowns, filing velocity charts, and score history.
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