Federal · federal court of appeals · 2017
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, 22 November 2017. What the court wrote about citations that did not exist, in its own words, from the document on file.
Case record · 7th Cir.
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.
Frentz’s attorney initially notified the state that he would pursue the defense, suggesting that he, like the courts that have reviewed this case, thought that Frentz’s recent absti- nence, after years of drinking, might at least potentially have resulted in hallucinations or other mental incapacity on the morning of the shooting.
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More from Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, from Federal, or from 2017. 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.