Search 1,395 source-linked cases involving fabricated citations and other AI-generated legal errors.
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Source: Damien Charlotin
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Fabricated: Case Law | Filed brief included a citation to a nonexistent case; court found the citation fabricated and tied its inclusion in part to AI use. || Misrepresented: Case Law | Court found the brief misrepresented the holding of a real case cited by counsel.
Judges: Peter H. Kang
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"In her declaration, Attorney Cervantes described the erroneous citation as her own inadvertent error and further implied that Westlaw’s tool may have “glitched” by erroneously producing the citation. [Dkt. 31 at ¶ 4]. Specifically, she indicates that the copy citation tool mayhave inadvertently copied the wrong citation information.Yet, that explanation seems highly improbable. The citation was incorrect in every respect and none of the sub-parts of the citation match each other, including the case docket number, reporter, pincite, court information, and date information. The likelihood of every component of a citation being simultaneously wrong due to a software malfunction in transcribing from a “correct” citation is, in the Court’s view, statistically improbable (particularly given Westlaw’s representations as to the accuracy of its tools and the apparent resources Westlaw has devoted to promoting the reputation of this tool). If one set of numbers had been transposed, or if the date were wrong, such transcription errors might be explicable. However, the fact that the party names, docket number, Westlaw citation, date, and court all failed to match, resulting in a mashup citat…
Judges: Peter H. Kang