Introducing Databank: Legal and Medical Research You Can Actually Trust
Last year a New York attorney submitted a court brief written with ChatGPT. It cited six cases. None of them existed. The judge sanctioned the lawyer. The story made national news.
It was a headline, but it wasn't an isolated incident. AI chatbots confidently cite cases that don't exist, reference studies with fabricated authors, and quote journals that never published the paper in question. If you work in law, medicine, or research, you've probably caught one of these yourself — or worse, you haven't.
This is how language models work. They predict the next plausible word. "Plausible" and "real" are different things. That's not a criticism — it's a limitation. And it's why we built Databank.
What Databank does
Databank connects your Wysor chat to authoritative legal and medical databases. When you ask a legal or medical question, the AI searches real databases with real documents and shows you the actual sources.
The results appear as interactive cards right in the conversation. Click any result to open the full document in a side panel — the full court opinion, the full regulation, the full study abstract. Real documents, real sources, right where you're working.
Legal research across five jurisdictions
Ask a legal question and Databank searches the relevant jurisdiction:
United States Federal and state court opinions with full opinion text. Citation tracking lets you see which cases cite a given decision, and whether it's been overruled. If you're preparing a brief, you know immediately whether your precedent still holds.
European Union EU regulations, directives, and decisions. Search for GDPR, the AI Act, Digital Services Act, Digital Markets Act, and more. Filter by document type and check whether legislation is currently in force.
Germany German court decisions from the Bundesgerichtshof, Oberlandesgericht, Landgericht, and other courts. Search by topic or file number.
Sweden Swedish parliamentary documents, government proposals, committee reports, and legislation.
Denmark Danish statutes, executive orders, and consolidated legislation.
One detail worth noting: select any European country and EU law is automatically included, because EU regulations apply directly in all member states. Ask about GDPR in Germany and you'll get both German court decisions and the underlying EU regulation.
Medical research you can rely on
The same challenge exists in medicine. AI chatbots invent study names, fabricate authors, and cite journals that never carried the referenced paper. For anyone making clinical or treatment decisions, reliable sources matter.
Databank connects to real medical databases:
Clinical literature Search peer-reviewed research. Filter by study type — systematic reviews, meta-analyses, randomized controlled trials. Filter by date, journal, and language. Click any result to see the full abstract, retraction status, and citation count.
Drug safety Look up any medication by brand or generic name. Get the full profile: indications, warnings, contraindications, adverse reactions, and dosage information. All sourced from official regulatory data.
Adverse event reports Real reports filed with regulatory agencies. See what reactions have been reported, their severity, and patient demographics.
Drug identification Identify drugs by name, look up active ingredients, and find brand name equivalents.
EU medicines Search EU-approved medicines, active substances, authorization status, and therapeutic areas.
Medical coding ICD-10, ATC, and OPS codes for clinical documentation.
Three things that make Databank different
1. Real sources, not predictions
When you ask a standard chatbot about a legal case, it generates text that looks like a citation. It might be real. It might not. There's no way to know without checking yourself.
With Databank enabled, Wysor searches actual databases and returns actual documents. The source is right there. Click through to verify.
2. Citation verification
Wysor can check whether legal citations in any text are real. Paste in a brief, a memo, or an AI-generated response. It checks each citation against a database of over 10 million case records. Real cases get confirmed. Fabricated ones get flagged.
This works on your own work, a colleague's draft, or any AI-generated text you want to verify before relying on it.
3. Overruled and retracted detection
A case from five years ago may have been overruled last month. A study published in a top journal may have been retracted. Databank surfaces both.
For legal cases, you can see the full citation graph — every case that cites yours, and whether any of those citations indicate the case has been reversed or overruled.
For medical studies, you see retraction status and citation count. A retracted study that's still being widely cited is exactly the kind of thing you want to know about before relying on it.
How to use it
- Open any Wysor chat
- Click Databank in the toolbar
- Choose Legal or Medical
- Pick your jurisdiction by clicking the country flag
- Ask your question
Results appear as clickable cards in the conversation. Click any card to open the full document in a side panel.
No separate app. No login to another platform. No per-search fees. It's part of the workspace.
What Databank is and isn't
It is:
- A research tool that searches real, authoritative databases
- A citation verification system
- A way to read full court opinions, EU regulations, and study abstracts without leaving Wysor
It isn't:
- A replacement for legal counsel
- A diagnostic tool for medical conditions
- A substitute for professional judgment
The databases contain real documents, but interpreting those documents is your job. Databank gives you the facts. What you do with them is up to you.
Currently in alpha
Databank is live now for all Wysor users. We're actively expanding coverage — more jurisdictions, more databases, more document types.
If there's a specific database or jurisdiction you'd like us to add, let us know at [email protected]. We're building this based on what professionals actually need.
Try it at wysor.io.
