California · state appellate court · 2022
California Court of Appeal, 15 September 2022. What the court wrote about citations that did not exist, in its own words, from the document on file.
Case record · Cal. Ct. App.
Retrieved · the text below was read from the source documents on that day.
The passages in which the court addresses the fabricated authority, verbatim, by document. A bracketed ellipsis marks where a passage was cut for length; nothing else is changed.
Dr. Jones noted that “[t]here’s a type of severe depression in which a person may 7 hear hallucinated voices, but that was not indicated in [Tresvant’s] records.” In addition, it is possible that someone suffering from severe major depressive disorder could suffer from hallucinations, and “depression, in some cases, could make a person incompetent.” A few weeks before Dr. Jones evaluated Tresvant, Dr.
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Every case in this record shares one cause: a citation reached a court without anyone opening it. What a citation gate is explains the mechanism that makes that impossible by construction; how to check an AI citation in five minutes is the manual version; the sanctions record is the essay this table grew out of.