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Texas · state appellate court · 2026

Sidni Campbell v. John Campbell, Jr.

Texas Court of Appeals, 3rd District (Austin), 22 January 2026. What the court wrote about citations that did not exist, in its own words, from the document on file.

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  1. Court. Texas Court of Appeals, 3rd District (Austin)COURT
  2. Level. state appellate courtLEVEL
  3. Date. 22 January 2026DATED
  4. Docket. No. 03-25-00388-CVDOCKET
  5. Documents. one document, 4 passages quoted belowON FILE
  6. Source. CourtListenerSOURCE

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Published opinion, 22 January 2026 · source · PDF · 3 pages

Kelly, Justice Before Justices Triana, Kelly, and Ellis Dismissed on Appellant’s Motion Filed: January 22, 2026 3 A word of caution is in order. In his motions, Daren has cited cases that do not appear to exist at all and has cited cases for purported quotations that do not exist in the relevant opinion. To be sure, Daren has also cited cases and quotations that do in fact exist.

Cohn , 573 S.W.2d 181, 184 –85 (Tex. 1978) , and use of hallucinated citations in court has elsewhere cost the offending persons dearly, see generally, e.g., Johnson v. Dunn , 792 F.

Ala. 2025) ; see id. at 1246 (“Fabricating legal authority is serious misconduct that demands a serious sanction. In the court ’s view, it demands substantially greater accountability than the reprimands and modest fines that have become common as courts confront this form of AI misuse.

In principle, they do not account for the danger that fake citations pose for the fair administration of justice and the integrity of the judicial system.”). Daren should take care not to include hallucinated citations, quotations, or authorities of any kind in the materials that he submits for filing in this Court.

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