Evans, et al. v. Robertson et al. (3)
- Party
- Pro Se Litigant
- AI Tool
- Implied / unconfirmed
Hallucinated Content
Fabricated
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Cited a Michigan Court of Appeals case the court could not locate; treated as a fabricated case citation.
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Cited an Eighth Circuit opinion that does not exist; court determined the citation refers to a different district-court filing.
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Repeated citation used four times that the court could not find; treated as fabricated.
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Citation identified by the court as not accurately representing an existing Sixth Circuit opinion.
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Cited an E.D. Mich. opinion that does not exist and quoted language not found in any located opinion.
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Cited a district-court opinion with a reporter citation that corresponds to a different case; court found the cited case does not exist as stated.
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Cited multiple opinions and entries that the court could not locate and deemed factitious (repeatedly used in the brief).
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Citation the court could not locate and treated as fabricated.
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Cited a Ninth Circuit opinion that does not exist under the given citation; court identified it as fabricated.
False Quotes
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Provided a quotation attributed to Walden v. Fiore that does not appear in the opinion; court identified it as a false quote.
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Quoted Seay v. TVA about 'sur-replies are not permitted' but the court found the quotation does not appear in the opinion.
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Attributed a quotation to Aetna Life Ins. Co. v. Ward that the court found does not exist in the opinion.
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Attributed a quotation to United States v. Shaffer Equip. Co. that the court found to be fabricated.
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Quoted Ready Transp. as stating that a stricken document 'ceases to exist for any purpose,' which the court found does not appear in that opinion.
Misrepresented
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Cited a real Sixth Circuit case but relied on a proposition the opinion does not support; court characterized this as a misrepresentation of the authority.
Outcome
Notes
Show Cause Order is here.
Flagged by: Volokh.