California · state appellate court · 2016
California Court of Appeal, 26 April 2016. 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.
Code, § 1250, subd. (a).)4 For example, had defendant in this case stated, “I am having hallucinations,” this would be a statement of his then-existing state of mind offered to prove the truth of the matter stated, i.e., defendant was having hallucinations. “In contrast, a statement which does not directly declare a mental state, but is merely circumstantial evidence of that state of mind, is not hearsay.
Pattern matches on the documents' text. Each line is a fact that the text contains the words, not a finding about the case.
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More from California Court of Appeal, from California, or from 2016. The whole record is at court decisions on AI-hallucinated citations.
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.