Search 1,395 source-linked cases involving fabricated citations and other AI-generated legal errors.
837 judge-case associations across 551 judges and 164 courts.
Source: Damien Charlotin
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Fabricated: Case Law | Plaintiff's January 2026 memorandum/sur-reply (Dkt. 79) included AI-generated 'hallucinated cases'—fabricated case citations; Court found apparent use of AI and ordered Dkt. 79 stricken.
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Fabricated: Case Law | Plaintiff cited 'FutureGrowth Corp. v. SEC, 955 F. Supp. 3d 441 (S.D.N.Y. 2025)'; the Court and defendant could not locate the case and the Court found the citation fabricated (Westlaw only showed Fleck's own filing).
Judges: Stacie F. Beckerman
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Fabricated: Case Law | Appellant relied on a second nonexistent case citation in his motion for summary reversal; the Court's research confirmed the citation does not exist. || Fabricated: Case Law | Appellant relied on a nonexistent case citation in his motion for summary reversal; the Court's research confirmed the citation does not exist. || Fabricated: Case Law | Appellant relied on a third nonexistent or misrepresentative case citation in his motion for summary reversal; the Court's research confirmed the citation was erroneous/nonexistent.
Judges: J. Daniel Breen
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False Quotes: Case Law | Response brief included a non-existent quotation attributed to EEOC v. Univ. of Chicago Hospitals; the court found the case contains no such language and called it a 'totally made-up quotation' possibly from generative AI. || False Quotes: Case Law | Response brief included a purported quotation attributed to Doe v. Village of Arlington Heights that the court found does not exist. || Misrepresented: Case Law | Response brief cited Engquist as supporting a 'class-of-one' equal-protection claim, but the court noted Engquist actually holds class-of-one claims do not apply in the public employment context, so the brief misrepresents the case's holding.
Judges: Edmond E-Min Chang
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Fabricated: Case Law | Plaintiff cited "DOE V. SMITH, No. 3:22-cv-01987 (D. Conn. 2023)", which the Court determined to be a hallucinated (nonexistent) case citation and flagged as undermining the credibility of the filings.
Judges: Sarala Vidya Nagala
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Fabricated: Case Law | Plaintiff cited multiple district-court decisions to argue that courts routinely strike overlength briefs; the Court found those cited cases either do not exist or are misattributed.
Judges: Thomas Lee Robinson Parker
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False Quotes: Case Law | Plaintiff claimed McEachin v. McGuinnis contains language applying 'special solicitude' to civil rights plaintiffs; the Court determined McEachin contains no such language and admonished counsel. || False Quotes: Case Law | Plaintiff attributed to Goel v. Bunge the language that a defendant 'may not rely on statements in the documents for the truth of the matter asserted.' The Court found Goel contains no such language and admonished counsel.
Judges: Kenneth M. Karas
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Fabricated: Exhibits & Submissions | Court observed Plaintiff's opposition (ECF No. 8) contained language suggesting use of a generative AI program (text addressing the plaintiff directly and referring to defense counsel), leading the court to warn about AI unreliability in filings.
Judges: Margaret Rose Guzman
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Fabricated: Case Law | Petitioner cited non-existent 'State v. Burdett' as a 1981 opinion at 63 Haw. 357; the actual case at that citation is State v. Masaniai, 63 Haw. 354, 628 P.2d 1018 (1981), which does not address family court jurisdiction. Court found the citation fabricated and unsupported. || Fabricated: Case Law | Petition included four additional inaccurate or non-existent case citations that did not support the propositions for which they were cited; court characterized these as hallucinated citations.
Judges: Lisa M. Ginoza, Sabrina S. McKenna, Todd W. Eddins, Vladimir P. Devens
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Fabricated: Case Law | Plaintiff cited 'Abbott v. Washington County,' which the Court could not locate and found to be a non-existent/mis-cited authority; Court warned that fabricated authority may justify sanctions.
Judges: Adrienne Camille Nelson