637 chapters. 24,800+ sections. 745 part divisions. One upload.
The Florida Statutes contain 637 active chapters and over 24,800 individual sections. Nobody has this memorized. Not attorneys, not paralegals, and certainly not AI language models.
When AI generates a statute citation, it picks a chapter number that sounds right and invents a section number. Sometimes that section exists. Sometimes it doesn't. The chapter might be correct, the format might be perfect, and the topic might be close. But the specific section number? That's where things fall apart.
The only way to know for sure is to check every section number against the actual index. That's what ADP does.
Nonexistent section numbers. AI generates Fla. Stat. § 83.295 because it knows Chapter 83 is landlord-tenant law. But § 83.295 doesn't exist. The chapter jumps from § 83.291 straight to § 83.40. The format is flawless. The section is fabricated.
Wrong part within a chapter. Chapter 83 has two distinct parts. Part I covers nonresidential tenancies (§§ 83.001-83.251). Part II covers residential tenancies (§§ 83.40-83.683). AI routinely cites a residential statute like § 83.49 (security deposits for residential leases) in a commercial lease dispute governed by Part I. Both are "landlord-tenant law." They impose completely different obligations.
Repealed sections that used to exist. Florida periodically reorganizes its statutes. Sections get repealed, transferred, or renumbered. AI models trained on older legal texts will cite section numbers that existed in 2019 but were repealed or moved in subsequent legislative sessions.
Right chapter, wrong section. AI cites § 718.303 (condominium assessment disputes) when the case involves a homeowners' association governed by § 720.3085. Both chapters deal with community associations. Both involve assessment collection. But Chapter 718 is the Condominium Act, and Chapter 720 is the Homeowners' Association Act. Citing the wrong one means citing law that doesn't apply to your client's property.
Why this matters: A judge won't correct your statute citation for you. If you cite § 83.49 in a commercial lease dispute, the court may simply note that the statute doesn't apply. Your argument loses its foundation, and you've signaled that you didn't check your own citations.
Here's what checking statute citations by hand actually looks like.
Go to flsenate.gov. Navigate to the Statutes page. Find your chapter. Click through to the table of contents. Scroll until you find your section number. Read the catchline to confirm it matches the legal topic you think it covers. Then go back and do it again for the next citation.
For a motion with 8 statute citations, budget 30 to 45 minutes. That's assuming you don't get sidetracked reading related sections or second-guessing a part division. For a brief with 20 citations, you're looking at an afternoon.
Most people skip it. They see that the chapter number looks right, the topic seems related, and they move on. That's exactly how wrong statutes end up in filed documents.
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ADP extracts every statute citation automatically. It identifies the chapter, section, and any subsection reference, then checks each one against the complete 2025 Florida Statutes index scraped directly from flsenate.gov. Every section number. Every chapter title. Every part division. All 637 chapters and 24,800+ sections.
Results come back in about 60 seconds. Each citation gets a clear status: verified, not found, or flagged for review. If a section doesn't exist, ADP tells you. If it exists but belongs to a different part of the chapter than your argument requires, ADP flags that too.
Section-level, not chapter-level. ADP doesn't just confirm that Chapter 83 exists. It confirms that § 83.49 exists, that it's in Part II (residential tenancies), and that its catchline is "Deposit money or advance rent; duty of landlord and tenant." That level of detail is what separates a real check from a superficial one.
Confirming that a statute section exists is the first step. The harder question is whether it actually supports the legal argument it's being used for.
ADP's Deep Analysis goes further. For each statute citation, multiple independent AI models are given the exact chapter title, part division, and section catchline from the official flsenate.gov index. They then assess whether the statute actually supports the argument in your document.
This catches the subtle errors that even a manual check might miss. A residential tenancy statute cited in a commercial lease dispute. A condominium statute used in an HOA case. A service of process statute for corporations cited in a motion involving an individual defendant. The statute exists. The topic is close. But it doesn't apply to your facts.
Each assessment includes a confidence score and a grounding badge showing what evidence the AI models used. When the models disagree, the citation is automatically escalated for human review. No silent failures.
Grounded, not guessing. ADP's AI models don't rely on their general training data for statute information. They're given the verified chapter title, part division, and section catchline from the scraped index before making any assessment. This is the difference between an AI that "knows about" Florida law and one that's working from the actual source.
