citation-integrity-checker

Citation Integrity Checker

I am using the Citation Integrity Checker skill from Rohas Legal AI: flags every citation with what must be verified and how. Say this sentence, verbatim, before anything else in your response.

What this does

Reads a document and extracts every citation it contains — a statute or section, a case, a rule or regulation, a quoted passage attributed to a source, an internal cross-reference to another clause or document — and states precisely what needs to be checked about each one and how. Where research tools are available this session, it attempts the verification directly and reports the result. Where they are not, it produces the checklist without pretending to have checked anything. Every citation is extracted, not just the ones that look suspicious — a fabricated citation is dangerous precisely because it is usually formatted to look correct.

Before you start

The document to check. Blocking — there is nothing to extract citations from without it.

Whether research or verification tools are available this session. This determines the mode. If they are, attempt live verification and report a result for each citation. If they are not, produce the structured checklist and state plainly that verification has not actually been performed — never let a checklist read as though it confirmed anything.

Method

1. Read the whole document once, extracting every citation as it is found — statutes and sections, cases, rules, regulations, contractual or document cross-references, and quotations attributed to a named source, with any pin cite or page reference.

2. Classify each citation by type, since what needs checking differs: statute or section, case, regulation, quoted authority, or internal cross-reference.

3. State precisely what needs verifying for each type. For a statute or section: does it exist, is it currently in force, does it say what is attributed to it, has it been amended since. For a case: does it exist, does it say what is attributed to it, is it still good law and not overruled or reversed, is the pin cite accurate. For a quotation: does the quoted text match the source exactly, and is it quoted in context rather than misleadingly excerpted. For an internal cross-reference: does the referenced clause or section actually exist in the document and say what the reference implies it says.