Marques Johnson v. Capital One Financial Corporation
E.D. Michigan · Nov 10, 2025
- Jurisdiction
- federal
- Court
- E.D. Michigan
- Record ID
- marques-johnson-v-capital-one-financial-corporation-2025-11-10
- Observed outcome
- The magistrate judge recommended that the district court grant the defendant's motion to dismiss the amended complaint.
- Known monetary consequence
- Not recorded
Why this matter warrants attention
The magistrate judge identified a likely AI-generated hallucination in the plaintiff's filing, specifically a fabricated quotation attributed to Cohen v. Cap. One Funding, LLC. The court flagged this as part of an ongoing issue with generative AI in litigation and recommended dismissal of the plaintiff's claims on the merits.
False Quotes: Case Law | Plaintiff cited Cohen v. Cap. One Funding, LLC and attributed a quotation—"Receivables are pooled and sold monthly."—to that opinion and misidentified the issuing court; the magistrate judge found the alleged quote does not appear in the Cohen decision and flagged it as likely an AI-generated hallucination.
This record documents a Pro Se Litigant filing issue in E.D. Michigan, with the listed outcome: no adjudicated outcome recorded.
Failure modes and consequences
- Pro Se
- Fabricated Quotes
- Contract
- Trial
- None Adjudicated
- AI attribution
- Implied
- Recorded tool
- unspecified
- Known monetary consequence
- Not recorded
- Procedural posture
- Report and Recommendation to grant Defendant's motion to dismiss.
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What this record does—and does not—establish
The court explicitly mentions the use of generative artificial intelligence as the source of the hallucinated citation.
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Controls suggested by the public record
- Confirm that every authority actually supports the proposition for which it is offered.