4. The computer system of claim 1 , wherein the instructions are further configured to cause the processor to: identify a first set of citations and a second set of citations in the plurality of citations, wherein the first and the second set of citations are sourced from the plurality of authoritative documents, wherein the second set of citations is more recent in time than the first set of citations, and wherein each citation has content; assign a unique citation ID to each citation in the first set and a same unique citation ID to each citation in the second set corresponding to the citation in the first set; compare each citation in the second set to the corresponding citation in the first set that is assigned a same unique citation ID as the citation in the second set to determine an editorial status of each citation in the first set; identify a difference between a citation in the second set with a citation in the first set that has a same unique citation ID as the citation in the second set; assign to a citation of the second set having the same content as the content of a citation of the first set having a same unique ID a first editorial status; assign to a citation of the second set having a unique ID that is not in the first set a second editorial status; assign to a citation of the second set having different content as the content of a citation of the first set having a same unique ID a third editorial status; assign to a citation of the second set having an indication of a deprecation of the content of the first set having a same unique ID a fourth editorial status; and generate a compliance report based on citations in the second set that have the first, the second, and the third editorial statuses.
5. The computer system of claim 4 , wherein the instructions are further configured to cause the processor to assign a first live status to each of the citations in the second set that are assigned the first, the second or the third editorial status, and assigning a second live status to each of the citations in the second set that are assigned the fourth editorial status.