AI Legal Citation Checking Quiz

Answers and explanations appear as you take the quiz.

1. Which layer of cite-checking would have caught the invented cases filed in Mata v. Avianca?
   • The validity check run through a citator
   • The existence check that matches each citation against a database of decisions
   • The support check comparing the brief's sentence with the opinion
   • A formatting check against citation style rules
2. What does a citator such as Shepard's or KeyCite mainly tell you about a case?
   • How later courts treated it, such as whether it was reversed, overruled, distinguished or questioned
   • Whether a quotation appears on the cited pinpoint page
   • Whether the citation follows the correct citation format
   • How many times opposing counsel has cited it
3. A case in your brief shows no negative citator flag. Why might it still be a poor citation?
   • Citators only track statutes, not cases
   • Cases without flags are always unpublished
   • It may not actually support the specific proposition you cite it for
   • Flags only appear on Supreme Court decisions
4. Why does the guide call quotation checking mostly deterministic but support checking probabilistic?
   • Quotation checking uses a language model, while support checking uses fixed rules
   • Quotation checking matches the quoted text against the opinion, while support checking asks a model whether a passage entails a proposition
   • Both are equally deterministic, and the difference is only in speed
   • Support checking is done by human editors, while quotation checking is automated
5. Why do cite-checking tools resolve short forms such as 'Id.' and 'supra'?
   • To convert them into full citations for style purposes only
   • To remove them from the document before analysis
   • To count how often the brief repeats itself
   • To link each short form back to the full authority it refers to so it can be checked
6. What is the purpose of mapping every citation to one standard identifier?
   • So that parallel cites to different reporters are treated as the same case
   • So that the brief can be converted into a different citation style
   • So that unpublished opinions are excluded
   • So that each citation receives a separate flag
7. A cited case carries a yellow flag. According to the guide, what does that flag not necessarily tell you?
   • That a later court has discussed the case
   • That some negative treatment exists
   • That the negative treatment happened in your jurisdiction or on your issue
   • That a citator has reviewed the case
8. Under rules like Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 11, who is responsible for the accuracy of a filing's citations?
   • The vendor of the cite-checking tool
   • The court clerk who accepts the filing
   • The AI model that drafted the text
   • The lawyer who signs the filing