Audit the other side's brief before you respond
Upload the opposing brief, motion, or transcript bundle. CiteProof extracts its citations and quotations, resolves federal authorities against public court records and the U.S. Code, and reports what does not align -- with the evidence beside every finding, ready for your review.
Preview a sample Audit Record (PDF) — rendered from the public mixed-brief demo (one wrong name, one unpublished volume, one changed quotation), so you see exactly what a paid audit delivers on a brief that is not clean.
What it checks
- Citation not found
- The authority could not be located in the available public sources.
- Citation identity mismatch
- The reporter cite resolves to a different case than the brief names.
- Malformed citation
- The citation could not be parsed reliably enough to verify.
- Statute mismatch
- The cited provision could not be located, or resolves to different text.
- Altered word
- Words in the quotation differ from the retrieved source text.
- Omission with ellipsis
- The quote skips source language at a marked ellipsis; the skipped text is shown.
- Omission without ellipsis
- The quote skips source language with no indicator.
- Noncontiguous quotation
- The quote stitches language from separate parts of the source.
- Quotation not found
- No sufficiently close passage could be located in the retrieved source.
- Unverifiable record reference
- A deposition, exhibit, or transcript cite matches nothing supplied.
- Source-version difference
- Minor drift against a database text; verify against the bound reporter.
Federal cases resolve through CourtListener; federal statutes through GovInfo. State, unpublished, and Lexis/Westlaw cites return "verify manually." The audit identifies textual and provenance discrepancies only: it never assesses legal materiality, good-law status, or intent. Attorney review required under Rule 11.
Review before export
Consequential findings must be confirmed or dismissed before the Audit Record exports; the review costs nothing extra. A source-version difference never blocks export: it reports an evidence limit, not a mismatch.
What an audit costs and keeps
Audits spend the same brief credits as checks: one per run, reserved before the run and spent on completion with citations found. Failed runs, documents with no citations, and unreadable uploads release the hold. Record cites are checked only against the bundle you supply; without it every record cite reads as unverifiable, and files that could not be read are listed as never searched. Paid audit reports persist like any paid record; materials otherwise stay with your session and are not persisted beyond it.
When to run one
- The opposition filed and your reply deadline is running. Upload their brief and get the mismatch list before you draft -- the findings arrive with the evidence beside each one, ready for attorney review.
- A deposition or exhibit bundle just landed. Supply it as the record bundle and record cites check against your bundle instead of reading unverifiable.
- Something in a quote reads off. Word-level diffs catch altered wording, dropped qualifiers, and stitched quotations that a fast read walks past.
Audit questions, answered directly
- How long does a run take? There is no fixed turnaround: most runs complete in minutes, slow upstreams can take longer. The job stays pollable while it runs, and nothing is spent until findings complete -- failed, empty, and unreadable runs release the hold.
- What if the brief is a scan? Upload what you have; files that cannot be read are listed as never searched, never silently skipped. A scan that yields no text yields no findings -- it does not yield an all-clear.
- What about sealed exhibits I cannot upload? Record cites are checked only against the bundle you supply. Cites pointing at material you withhold read as unverifiable, honestly, rather than as mismatches.
- Does it judge whether the cases still stand? No. The audit reports textual and provenance discrepancies only: no materiality, no good-law status, no intent. Attorney review required under Rule 11.
- Who sees the other side's brief? The same zero-retention contract as checks: materials stay with your session past the paid record itself, which persists like any paid record.