AI Abuse Court Cases
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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Hardy v. Whitaker
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan · Michigan · Mar 2, 2026
Fabricated: Case Law | Plaintiff's MSJ included the citation 'Patel v. City of Ferndale, 308 F.3d 511, 517 (6th Cir. 2002)'; the court identified it as a fabricated/phantom case likely produced by generative AI and flagged it as a hallucination. || Fabricated: Case Law | Plaintiff's MSJ included the citation 'Thompson v. City of Lebanon, 813 F.3d 318, 323 (6th Cir. 2016)'; the court identified it as a fabricated citation likely resulting from AI and noted it among fake citations. || Fabricated: Case Law | Plaintiff's MSJ included the citation 'Spurlock v. Satterfield, 167 F.3d 915 (5th Cir. 1999)'; the court listed this as one of several fake citations and suspected AI-generated hallucination. || Fabricated: Case Law | Plaintiff's MSJ included the citation 'Wesley v. Rigney, 860 F.3d 931 (6th Cir. 2017)'; the court characterized this as a fake citation likely produced by generative AI and cited it as an example of 'phantom cases.'
Judges: Stephen Joseph Murphy III, Thomas Lamson Ludington
Plaintiff's amended complaint dismissed with prejudiceParty using AI: Self-representedRead the decision ↗ AI-related case
Zlatkin v. Gladwin County, et al.
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan · Michigan · Feb 20, 2026
Fabricated: Case Law | Plaintiff cited 'Wells v. UPS Airlines, -- F. Supp. 3d --, 2022 WL 1234567 (W.D. Ky. Mar. 30, 2022)'; the Court determined no such decision exists and noted a different similarly titled decision does not support plaintiff's recusal argument. || Fabricated: Case Law | Plaintiff cited 'ABC Corp. v. XYZ Inc., 123 F.3d 456 (6th Cir. 2019)'; the Court found that citation to be nonexistent and not a valid binding authority.
Judges: Patricia T. Morris, Thomas Lamson Ludington
