No AI. Just Verification.
Your AI Just Made Up a Citation. Did You Catch It?
Judges are sanctioning attorneys for AI hallucinations, and “I didn’t know” won’t save your license. GhostCite instantly cross-references every citation in your brief against official, live court records to ensure they actually exist. Protect your Duty of Candor with a verified audit trail in seconds.
No drafting, no suggestions, no “assistant.” Verification only, against the actual court record.
- Free. Always. No subscription.
- No AI. Direct lookup against CourtListener.
- No signup required. Guest mode available instantly.
- Catches fake citations before they reach a judge.
New Training
How to Build Risk Assessments Using Claude Code
Governance professionals: Claude Code can analyze systems, identify risks, and document findings. But you need to know how to prompt it, verify its outputs, and build assessments that stand up to scrutiny. This self-paced course teaches you exactly that.
- Prompt Claude Code to analyze system architecture
- Identify hallucinated or incorrect outputs
- Build reproducible risk assessment templates
- Document findings for regulators and stakeholders
About
The Engineer Who Understands What Lawyers Are Actually Risking
Salma Saad is a Senior Legal Solutions Architect and the founder of Rule26 AI. She brings more than 30 years of software engineering and technical leadership experience, including Director-level roles at organizations operating at the compliance standards and production scale of Silicon Valley's most demanding environments.
Her foundation in Mathematics is not incidental. It shapes how she approaches every verification problem: systematically, precisely, and with zero tolerance for outputs that cannot be confirmed against a primary source. That discipline now drives the core logic of GhostCite.
Salma holds the CIPP/US certification from the International Association of Privacy Professionals, the credential US attorneys and compliance teams rely on when evaluating data governance expertise. It reflects a working knowledge of US privacy law, data handling standards, and the regulatory frameworks governing how information is collected, stored, and disclosed in the United States.
She founded Rule26 AI after identifying what she calls the Verification Gap: the distance between what an AI tool claims a legal source says, and what that source actually contains. That gap is where professional reputations are lost, bar complaints are filed, and sanctions are issued. GhostCite exists to close it.
Rule26 AI is named for the federal disclosure obligation attorneys already know. Every tool and engagement it produces is built on the same engineering rigor used in enterprise compliance pipelines, now directed at the one problem no AI drafting tool currently solves: confirming that what you file is actually supported by the authority you cite.
- No AI
- Free. Always.
- No Data Sold
GhostCite: The Safety Layer Between AI and Your Filing
The Problem
AI drafting tools generate citations that look structurally perfect and do not exist. The case name, reporter, and volume all check out at a glance. The opinion itself does not. Courts have already sanctioned attorneys for submitting fabricated case law, and “my AI generated it” has not been accepted as a defense.
The Solution
GhostCite cross-references every citation and quoted passage in your document against primary legal sources via CourtListener in seconds. It flags non-existent cases, volume errors, reporter mismatches, and quoted text that does not appear in the cited opinion. No AI rewrites. No legal analysis. Only a direct comparison between what your brief says and what the court record actually contains.
The Benefit
File with confidence knowing every citation has been verified against the primary record. Protect your license from the bar complaints that follow AI-generated hallucinations. Recover the hours currently spent manually pulling cases and comparing quoted text, line by line.
GhostCite is built by a Senior Legal Solutions Architect with 30 years of software engineering experience. It applies the same systematic verification logic used in enterprise compliance pipelines to the specific, high-stakes problem of legal citation integrity.
How this fits with other tools
GhostCite works alongside any AI tool — Harvey, Spellbook, Lexis, Claude. It does not replace them. It verifies their citations before you file.
- Does not draft. Does not summarize. Does not suggest arguments.
- Checks citations against CourtListener — the largest open database of US court opinions.
- Flags non-existent cases, volume errors, reporter mismatches, and quoted text that does not appear in the opinion.
- Run it the way you run spellcheck: right before filing.
Researchers Call It the “LLM Fallacy.” GhostCite Is the Cure.
A new paper introduces the LLM Fallacy: mistaking AI-assisted outputs as evidence of your own competence. Lawyers overestimate their ability to verify because AI makes them look good. GhostCite breaks the fallacy. No AI. No fluency illusion. Just verification against real court records.
Kim et al., 2026
Questions from cautious lawyers
Is this an AI tool?
No. GhostCite uses no AI. There is nothing to hallucinate.
How is this different from Lexis+ AI or CoCounsel?
Those tools use AI. GhostCite uses no AI. It just checks citations against CourtListener. Simple, transparent, free.
Does this replace reading the case?
No. It’s a shortcut to get you to the right case and page faster so you can read it in context. If you don’t read the case, that’s still on you.
Why would I use this if I already read every case?
Many lawyers already do meticulous manual checks. GhostCite just automates the tedious part of finding the right document and locating the quoted passage, so you can spend more time on substance and less time on hunting through PDFs.
Why Is GhostCite Free?
CourtListener provides free API access to federal court records. We built GhostCite for ourselves and are sharing it. No data selling. No hidden fees. If usage grows, we may add optional paid features (bulk checking, audit trails), but the core citation checker will always be free.