We're building the tools lawyers need to practice with confidence.
Lawyers can't trust AI with their citations. Large language models hallucinate — they invent case names, fabricate volume numbers, and generate citations that look correct but don't exist. For a profession where citing bad law can mean sanctions, malpractice, or losing a case, that's not a minor inconvenience. It's a dealbreaker.
Citations.law takes a fundamentally different approach. Our flagship service, CiteGuard, doesn't use AI to verify your citations. It uses deterministic search — the same kind of mechanical lookup you'd use to find a word in a document.
We built a comprehensive database of over 21 million indexed citation references from published court decisions across the United States. When you submit a document, CiteGuard extracts every legal citation and checks each one against this database. It's either there or it isn't. No probability. No confidence scores. No guessing.
A natural question: if AI hallucinates, how do we know the database itself is accurate?
The answer: AI didn't build the database. AI built the tools that built the database. The actual corpus was constructed through deterministic processes at every level — downloading published case law from authoritative public sources, parsing structured data, and indexing citations through mechanical extraction. No AI was involved in deciding what's in the corpus.
Citations.law draws from the most comprehensive public sources of American case law:
Together, these sources provide coverage of 16.8 million court decisions and 21 million+ citation references across federal and state jurisdictions.
We designed Citations.law around a non-negotiable principle: your documents are never stored, never sent to external services, and never leave your control. Attorney-client privilege is preserved at every step.
When document processing requires OCR (for scanned PDFs), that processing happens locally — using open-source tools running on our own servers. No client data ever reaches a third-party API.
CiteGuard is the first service on the Citations.law platform. We're building toward a comprehensive legal research and practice tool that provides the value lawyers need — citation verification, case research, authority ranking, and practice-specific workflows — without the cost and complexity of legacy legal research platforms.
Questions, feedback, or interested in early access? Reach us at info@citations.law.