Citation extraction - find every citation before you check it

Philosophy

You can only verify what you first find. Grounding a citation checks whether it exists in the source - but it runs on a list that someone has to assemble first. This skill is that front-end: it walks the text and lists every authority, so none slips past verification. A missed citation is an unverified one.

Extraction is mechanical (patterns + rules, not an LLM) on purpose - a model asked to find citations might miss one or invent one. Local, jurisdiction-neutral, EU-aware.

Three steps (after eyecite)

1. Extraction - recognise and capture every reference by the patterns below.
2. Aggregation - resolve short references (ibid. / id. / supra / op. cit. / "the above-cited judgment") to their full antecedent, so they count as one citation, not several.
3. Hand-off - pass the structured list to verification (grounding) and, for EU sources, to eu-sparql-search for retrieval.