Kenneth Merritt v. American Home Shield
Record source: imported from Damien Charlotin’s AI Hallucination Cases Database (CC BY 4.0), which credits Jesse Schaefer; document hosted in his archive: open the upstream document. What AI Vortex adds.
CA Tennessee · Feb 4, 2026
What happened in this matter?
False Quotes: Legal Norm | Appellant quoted Tenn. Code Ann. § 66-28-304(a)(4) with language the statute does not contain; the court identified this as an inaccurate statutory quotation. Outcome: Related issues waived on appeal.
- Why the court cared
- The structured public record identifies pro se and fake citations and records Related issues waived on appeal. The linked source controls the precise reasoning and procedural context.
- Why it matters now
- This matter connects pro se and fake citations with Related issues waived on appeal in CA Tennessee. It provides a source-linked baseline for verification, supervision, and response controls.
Why this matter is tracked
False Quotes: Legal Norm | Appellant quoted Tenn. Code Ann. § 66-28-304(a)(4) with language the statute does not contain; the court identified this as an inaccurate statutory quotation. Outcome: Related issues waived on appeal.
This matter connects pro se and fake citations with Related issues waived on appeal in CA Tennessee. It provides a source-linked baseline for verification, supervision, and response controls.
Record details
What the record establishes about AI use
AI (implied, unspecified) is recorded in the source dataset; confirm the basis in the linked document.
Related issues waived on appeal
Correction behavior is not separately verified in the current record.
Tracked discrepancy record
4 citation, quotation, or authority issues are recorded in the source dataset.
- False Quotes: Legal Norm | Appellant quoted Tenn. Code Ann. § 66-28-304(a)(4) with language the statute does not contain; the court identified this as an inaccurate statutory quotation.
- False Quotes: Case Law | Appellant quoted Myint v. Allstate and Walker v. Sunrise for nominal-damages language the court could not find; the quoted language does not appear in those cases and appears fabricated.
- Fabricated: Case Law | Appellant cited Perrin v. Perrin, 514 S.W.2d 426 (Tenn. Ct. App. 1974) in support of a point; the court found the citation fabricated/misplaced (actual reporter at that cite is a different case).
- Misrepresented: Other | Portions of the complaint and motion contained apparent AI-generated advisory text and damage calculations (boilerplate legal advice and suggested pleadings), which the court flagged as AI-generated/misleading.
Questions this record answers
- What happened in Kenneth Merritt v. American Home Shield?
- False Quotes: Legal Norm | Appellant quoted Tenn. Code Ann. § 66-28-304(a)(4) with language the statute does not contain; the court identified this as an inaccurate statutory quotation. Outcome: Related issues waived on appeal.
- Why does Kenneth Merritt v. American Home Shield matter for legal AI risk?
- This matter connects pro se and fake citations with Related issues waived on appeal in CA Tennessee. It provides a source-linked baseline for verification, supervision, and response controls.
- What does the public record establish about Kenneth Merritt v. American Home Shield?
- The record summarizes the outcome described in the linked public source. The recorded document is hosted in the upstream publisher archive. This page is not a substitute for the complete docket, subsequent history, or jurisdiction-specific advice.
- Which source supports this Kenneth Merritt v. American Home Shield summary?
- The recorded source is Damien Charlotin case archive. It is classified as publisher document archive; review the linked material and subsequent docket history before relying on this summary.
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