Casetext replacement for solo lawyers

CiteCanon

The canon of legal citations. AI-grounded, lawyer-verified, 1/3 the cost of Westlaw.

Every citation clickable. Every source public. No invented cases. Built for the solo and small-firm lawyers left searching after Casetext vanished.

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All core workflows

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Output cites verified

Query

Find sanctions cases involving fake AI citations.

Verified answer

Courts have sanctioned lawyers for submitting fabricated citations generated by AI tools. The leading modern warning is:

Mata v. Avianca, Inc., 678 F. Supp. 3d 443 (S.D.N.Y. 2023)

Corpus match

Live lookup

Output gate

Not a chatbot

A legal research pipeline with a citation gate.

Retrieve

Search a public legal corpus by jurisdiction, practice area, and source type.

Reason

Generate a concise answer from retrieved authority, citing only retrieved material.

Verify

Block every output citation that cannot match the corpus or public live source.

Research session

Citation gate active

Sample query

Can I rely on AI legal research in a federal filing?

Jurisdiction: U.S. Federal

Practice area: Civil litigation

Corpus: cases + ethics guidance

Verified answer

A lawyer can use generative AI for legal research, but professional duties require independent verification of authorities before filing or relying on the work product.

Courts have sanctioned lawyers when AI-generated filings included non-existent cases, making citation verification a core workflow issue rather than a cosmetic feature. CiteCanon treats citations as structured objects and blocks unverified authorities before output. The product is framed as research support for licensed attorneys, not consumer legal advice.

Mata v. Avianca, Inc., 678 F. Supp. 3d 443 (S.D.N.Y. 2023)Marbury v. Madison, 5 U.S. (1 Cranch) 137 (1803)

Free verification tools

Start from public authority, then move into citation-gated research.

Case finder

Search public case authority by name, citation, party, or issue.

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Hallucination detector

Paste legal text and flag unsupported citation-shaped fragments.

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Citation checker

Parse individual citations and route them to public source links.

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Bluebook formatter

Normalize rough case, statute, and regulation citations for export.

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10M+

Federal and state opinions

CourtListener

All 54

U.S. Code titles hosted

Cornell LII

Daily

Federal regulations

eCFR + govinfo

Block

Output citation policy

Unverified cites never display

Leaving Casetext or Westlaw?

A documented migration path off the tools solo lawyers are losing.

Casetext is now part of Thomson Reuters, and standalone access for solo and small firms has narrowed. Start with the Casetext alternative guide or weigh the full cost of staying on Westlaw.

Casetext alternative

A source-linked replacement guide for solo lawyers who need public citations, verification gates, and lower research costs.

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Post-Casetext plan

A step-by-step replacement workflow for firms moving off Casetext after the Thomson Reuters acquisition.

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Shutdown checklist

What to export, verify, and re-home before standalone Casetext access narrows.

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Cheaper than Westlaw

A line-by-line cost breakdown comparing Westlaw subscriptions with citation-gated research.

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Casetext vs CiteCanon

A feature-by-feature comparison of Casetext's research workflow against CiteCanon.

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Compare the tools

See how CiteCanon stacks up against the legal AI tools solos evaluate.

Picking a research tool after Casetext? Put CiteCanon head to head with the platforms solo and small-firm lawyers actually shortlist, or read a direct matchup between two competitors such as Paxton AI vs Harvey AI and CiteCanon vs Lexis+ AI. Each comparison is an evaluation framework, not a vendor claim — verify current pricing and source coverage directly with each tool.

CiteCanon vs Westlaw

How a citation-gated solo workflow weighs against an enterprise research suite on price, source access, and audience.

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CiteCanon vs Lexis+ AI

Public-source-first research and solo-lawyer economics next to a closed-ecosystem AI suite.

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CiteCanon vs Paxton AI

A citation-canon approach for solos compared with a general-purpose legal AI assistant.

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Harvey AI alternative for solos

Why a solo and small-firm tool reads differently from an enterprise-firm AI platform.

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Jurisdiction source maps

Route research through the court system that controls the answer.

Before relying on an AI-assisted research memo, check the source path for the jurisdiction: controlling courts, public statute text, publication status, and the citation audit trail a lawyer should keep.

U.S. federal research

Start with federal statutes, regulations, CourtListener routes, and source-linked AI review workflows.

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California research

Separate statewide code checks, publication-status review, local court sources, and demand-letter workflows.

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New York research

Track Court of Appeals, Appellate Division, trial-court, statute, and audit-trail checks in one hub.

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Legal AI, explained

Plain-language answers on using AI in a law practice.

Working out where AI fits in research and drafting? Start with the two foundational overviews below, then dig into the specific questions lawyers ask before relying on any AI-generated authority.

AI for lawyers

A verification-first overview of where AI fits in legal research and drafting — and where a human review gate stays non-negotiable.

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Citation verification for lawyers

The discipline of checking every AI-surfaced case and statute against a primary source before you rely on it in a filing.

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Can lawyers use AI legal research?

What is allowed, what must be verified, and how to keep a source-linked audit trail.

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How to detect fake AI citations

A practical checklist for catching fabricated cases and statutes before they reach a filing.

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What to keep in an audit trail

Which source links, citation checks, and review records make AI-assisted work defensible.

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Source-linked law library

Read the statutes, cases, and drafting guides behind the research.

CiteCanon grounds every answer in public authority. Browse the source-linked federal statute explainers, the landmark AI-citation cases, and citation-aware drafting templates directly, or open the full resource library for every guide, tool, and comparison.