TrustCitation · Notes
Notes on cite-checking, AI hallucinations, and defensible firm process.
Long-form pieces from the team building TrustCitation — anchored in real sanction cases, real workflow data, and the gaps the existing tools don't cover.
- April 28, 20269 minAudit Walkthrough
Mata v. Avianca: What KeyCite Missed and What a Real Audit Would Have Caught
Six fabricated cases. A 30-year veteran's name on the brief. A $5,000 sanction and a career rewritten as a cautionary tale. Here's what the existing cite-check workflow actually verified that day — and what it didn't.
Read → - April 15, 20268 minCornerstone
Why Citations Fail
Stanford research shows Westlaw AI-Assisted Research hallucinates 33% of the time. Lexis+ AI hallucinates 17%. By early 2026, researchers had catalogued over 1,200 cases worldwide where AI-generated citations failed in court — and those are just the ones that got caught. Here's what every litigator needs to know about how citations actually fail.
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