When Draftiro detects a supported case citation in an AI reply, it checks it against CourtListener, the public US case-law database maintained by the Free Law Project, when that service is available. Statutes, rules, and other authorities are not checked. Each AI reply shows a citation banner summarizing what was found:

Verified (green): the case citation matched a case in CourtListener. Verified means a matching case exists — you still need to read it. Verified cites are linked through to CourtListener.
Likely fabricated (red): a case citation did not match any case in CourtListener. Treat it as fabricated until you confirm it in primary authority.
Unchecked (amber): the authority is a statute, rule, or regulation — we don't auto-check those. Confirm them yourself.

Validation also degrades to "unchecked" if CourtListener is slow or unreachable, so an unchecked badge isn't a guarantee either way. If you find a citation we marked verified but is wrong, email support@draftiro.com — those reports help us tune the validator.