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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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United States of America v. Smith

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois · Illinois · Aug 7, 2026

Fabricated: Case Law | Court could not find the purported case relied on by petitioner in briefing. || Misrepresented: Case Law | Petitioner attributed a holding to Jones that would have required resentencing; Court found the case real but mischaracterized (Jones affirmed the sentence). || Misrepresented: Case Law | Petitioner said Scott supported a cumulative-effect ineffective-assistance argument; Court found Scott did not contain that discussion. || Fabricated: Case Law | Court unable to locate the cited Rivera decision and URL led nowhere; citation unsupported. || Misrepresented: Case Law | Petitioner cited Aviles-Colon as reversing for misrepresentation of loss amount; Court noted Aviles-Colon was a remand in a Brady context and did not support petitioner's asserted point. || Fabricated: Case Law | Court could not locate the cited Johnson decision petitioner relied on for the proposition that prosecutorial exaggeration is improper. || Fabricated: Case Law | Court could not locate or verify the cited case; petitioner relied on this citation to support his §2C1.1 argument. || Fabricated: Case Law | Court could not locate the cited decision that petitioner attributed supporting…

Judges: Edmond E-Min Chang

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Williams v. Chicago Board Of Education

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois · Illinois · Mar 30, 2026

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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