Florida · state appellate court · 2026
District Court of Appeal of Florida, 11 March 2026. What the court wrote about citations that did not exist, in its own words, from the document on file.
Case record · Fla. Dist. 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.
We write, however, to address our concerns with the purported legal authority upon which the appellant relied in her brief. The appellant cited thirteen different cases that do not exist. We expressly disregard these hallucinated cases.
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 District Court of Appeal of Florida, from Florida, or from 2026. 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.