Extract every legal citation from an English-language text by pattern rather than judgement: ECLI identifiers (CJEU and national), EU act identifiers (CELEX, Official Journal references, Regulation and Directive numbers), case names and numbers, and cited provisions, then normalise, deduplicate, and resolve short references (ibid., id., supra, op. cit., the above-cited judgment) to their antecedents. The front-end to citation verification: find every citation first, then check it. Use before verifying authorities, before sending a brief or opinion, or when asked what a text cites.
