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Editorial discipline

Why our citations are verified, not generated

The editorial discipline that distinguishes us from AI summaries: every statute links to a primary source, and we never publish a case name we have not checked.

AI summaries struggle with case-law

AI-generated answer boxes are good at general doctrine but unreliable at the thing that matters most in easement law: specific case names and parallel citations across fifty jurisdictions. When pushed to cite, they tend to invent plausible-looking citations that do not exist. In a YMYL legal context, that is both unethical and dangerous.

Our standard

Every statute citation here links to a primary state-legislature or Cornell LII page — never a third-party scraper as the primary source. Every case-law citation is either backed by a primary source you can click, or marked honestly as 'pending verification.' We never publish a case name we have not checked, and every state page carries a last-verified date that is refreshed on an annual re-verification cycle.

Why this is the wedge

Being the verified-citation alternative is the whole point. The complicated, citation-dense work is exactly what an answer box cannot reproduce cleanly — so it is exactly where a careful, honest reference earns its place.