Fake Citations
Fake Citations appears in 1,727 of 2,039 public corpus records (84.7%). This page describes the recorded dataset, not an incidence rate, prevalence of AI use, or a prediction of future outcomes.
Where does Fake Citations appear and what responses are recorded?
Taxonomy definition: Authorities or citations recorded as nonexistent, inaccurate, or not locatable in the cited form.
AI Vortex currently links 1,727 source-linked public matters classified with Fake Citations. The most frequently recorded issue signals are Fabricated authorities (1,727), Misrepresented authority (724) and Fabricated or altered quotations (543). Recorded responses and outcomes include Warning or admonishment (561), No adjudicated consequence recorded (541) and Monetary sanction (391). Categories can overlap within the same matter, and these counts describe this public corpus rather than the overall behavior or sanction rate of the failure.
Every count below links to the exact matching records. The linked source, subsequent docket history, and local procedural context remain controlling.
What problems appear in these records?
Issue categories can overlap within a single matter.
How did courts or authorities respond?
Response categories can overlap and do not imply that every matter ended in a sanction.
Who appears in these matters?
Which practice areas are represented?
How is AI involvement recorded?
Unspecified attribution is not evidence that a particular vendor was used.
When were these matters recorded?
Public records in this view
Showing the most recent 24 of 1,727 matching records.
Scope and limitation
This page groups existing structured public-record fields. For judges, the counts describe matters in which that person is recorded as a decision-maker; they do not establish a judge’s general practices or sanction rate. For every entity type, the view is not a comparison against unobserved proceedings.
Indexing and evidence status
This public entity profile is indexable and meets the evidence-depth baseline of at least 3 source-linked records.