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A Legal AI Citation Is Not Proof. Here Is the Missing Layer

A citation tells you where a system looked. It does not tell you the authority was the right one, or that every material fact survived the trip. Six ways that fails, three layers that catch it, and the limit: a system that checks its own answers is running confidence theatre.

X · 2026-07-28

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