Cite-check — Legalnaut glossary  A Markdown version of this page is available at https://legalnaut.com/glossary/cite-check.md for AI and LLM tools. 

  Cite-check
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 A cite-check is the verification that every citation in a document points at a real source that says what the document claims it says.

Cite-checking used to be a junior's afternoon with the bundle. With language models drafting, it is the step that separates a usable draft from a sanction, because a fluent draft can cite a document that does not exist.

Legalnaut runs a deterministic check on every AI text, with no model involved: the cited document exists and the reader may see it, the cited page exists, a quotation of four words or more appears in a document cited in the same paragraph, and a case number is one the file knows. Anything that fails is reported under the draft or the chat message, never repaired quietly.

 Related: [Hallucination](https://legalnaut.com/glossary/hallucination), [Pin-cite](https://legalnaut.com/glossary/pin-cite), [Provenance](https://legalnaut.com/glossary/provenance)

 Legalnaut builds this out of your own case file. [See the plans](https://legalnaut.com/pricing).

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