Citation verification for legal briefs
Catch it before the judge does.
Upload a filing and get a dated Verification Report: every case citation checked against the public case-law record, wrong reporters and pages corrected, and citations to cases that do not exist flagged — before opposing counsel or the court finds them.
In Mata v. Avianca (S.D.N.Y. 2023), six of the cases cited in a filing did not exist. The court found out.
What you get
- Every citation checked against the record. Not only whether the citation number exists, but whether it leads to the case named — a real address can belong to a different case.
- Corrections, not just flags. When a citation is close but wrong — the right case at the wrong reporter or page — the correct citation is offered.
- A report for the file. A dated Verification Report with its own report id, returned to you as a page you can copy or print; neither your filing nor the report is retained by Cite11.
- Quotations and dockets checked. A quotation next to a citation is compared with the opinion text, and a case cited only by docket number is checked on its docket. Nothing in the report is written by AI: the Summary is generated from the results by fixed rules.
How it works
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Upload the filing
A PDF or plain-text brief, up to 10MB. It is read once for its citations and not kept.
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Each citation is checked against the record
Name, address, and court and year — every case citation, against the public case-law record — and the quotation attributed to it. Anything that could not be checked is listed as not checked, with the reason, never guessed at.
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You get a Verification Report
Dated, with its own report id: each citation verified, case confirmed, belonging to a different case, not confirmed or not found, and a plain statement of what was and was not checked. Copy or print it for your records — it is not stored by Cite11 after the check completes.