North Carolina cite check
Every citation on a North Carolina surface is checked for existence against the verbatim corpus before anything is said about what it holds. The checker reads North Carolina's own shapes — including the wrinkle that the Rules of Civil Procedure are STATUTORY (they live inside G.S. 1A-1) — and the cross-jurisdiction guard means a Florida or Texas citation can never resolve as North Carolina authority, or the reverse. Rule 11's sanction for a paper signed in violation is MANDATORY (“shall impose”) — the shield is built for that world.
The citation shapes recognized
General Statutes: "N.C. Gen. Stat. § 1-52" (formal) · "G.S. 1-52" (practice style).
Rules of Civil Procedure are STATUTORY — G.S. 1A-1, Rule 56 (the rules live inside section 1A-1).
The appellate rules' own text: cite as "N.C. R. App. P. ___" — the abbreviated form the book itself blesses.
N.C. Const. art. I, § 18.
S.L. 2023-108 style for session laws pending codification.
The hallucinated-citation problem ends the same way in every state: the citation gate runs against loaded, hash-pinned text, so an invented authority is flagged before you sign — not discovered by a judge.