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Canadian cases, checked.
CiteProof verifies Canadian citations — neutral cites like 2016 SCC 27 for existence and identity against CanLII, the Canadian Legal Information Institute's public collection. Supreme Court Reports cites like [2008] 1 SCR 190 surface as named-but-unverified while the reports path is contained. Same credit, same report, limits stated on the row.
What it checks
- Existence. The cited decision is in CanLII's collection — verified by record, not by ranking.
- Identity. The party names in your brief are compared against the decision's title, the same identity check U.S. cases get. A mismatch flags; a missing name leaves identity unjudged rather than guessed.
- Cite forms. Neutral cites (2014 ONCA 925) resolve directly. Supreme Court Reports cites ([2008] 1 SCR 190) are temporarily unavailable as automatic checks: they surface preserved but unverified. A neutral plus SCR pair for one decision keeps each row's own finding and says so on both rows.
What it does not
- Quoted passages are not compared. CanLII's API serves metadata, and CiteProof does not scrape decision pages — so quoted lines on Canadian rows stay uncompared, marked as a corpus gap, and a quoted Canadian row reads needs-review rather than clean.
- Courts outside the checked set are named, never verified. A cite the set does not cover surfaces as a named row with the court stated, never as a guess.
- Everything else from the main limits. No good law, no support-for-proposition, no currency or interpretation — attorney review is still required, and Rule 11 diligence belongs to the filing lawyer.
Coverage
The checked set today — Supreme Court, appellate and superior trial courts, and the federal courts:
- Court Martial Appeal Court of Canada
- Court of Appeal for British Columbia
- Court of Appeal for Ontario
- Court of Appeal for Saskatchewan
- Court of Appeal for the Northwest Territories
- Court of Appeal of Alberta
- Court of Appeal of Manitoba
- Court of Appeal of New Brunswick
- Court of Appeal of Newfoundland and Labrador
- Court of Appeal of Nunavut
- Court of Appeal of Prince Edward Island
- Court of Appeal of Quebec
- Court of Appeal of Yukon
- Court of King's Bench for Saskatchewan
- Court of King's Bench of Alberta
- Court of King's Bench of Manitoba
- Court of King's Bench of New Brunswick
- Court of Quebec
- Federal Court
- Federal Court of Appeal
- Nova Scotia Court of Appeal
- Nunavut Court of Justice
- Ontario Court of Justice
- Ontario Superior Court of Justice
- Superior Court of Quebec
- Supreme Court of British Columbia
- Supreme Court of Canada
- Supreme Court of Newfoundland and Labrador (Trial Division)
- Supreme Court of Nova Scotia
- Supreme Court of Prince Edward Island
- Supreme Court of Yukon
- Supreme Court of the Northwest Territories
- Tax Court of Canada
The set is a table, not a promise about CanLII's holdings: verification confirms the cited decision is there, never the completeness of any court's archive. Expanding the set is a table edit plus tests.
How to use it
- Paste a Canadian brief at Citation Check — one credit per check, same packs, same subscriptions. See pricing.
- Drive it programmatically through the API — same endpoints, same per-document spend, same vendor quotas.
- Canadian rows carry their CanLII link on the record; uncheckable rows name the reason and the resolution path.
Check a Canadian brief API reference
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