"After the Hallucination: What 100 Recent Cases Reveal About Candor, AI Errors, and Sanctions"
The study began with Damien Charlotin's publicly available AI Hallucination Cases Database and independently reviewed 100 of the most recent cases in the dataset that were resolved U.S. matters involving lawyers. A stricter analytical sample included cases with a meaningful AI connection, a final judicial outcome, and enough information to evaluate counsel's response after discovery. The results point to a coherent and practical distinction.
- ▪The study began with Damien Charlotin's publicly available AI Hallucination Cases Database and independently reviewed 100 of the most recent cases in the dataset that were resolved U.S. matters involving lawyers.
- ▪A stricter analytical sample included cases with a meaningful AI connection, a final judicial outcome, and enough information to evaluate counsel's response after discovery.
- ▪The results point to a coherent and practical distinction.
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AI in Court "After the Hallucination: What 100 Recent Cases Reveal About Candor, AI Errors, and Sanctions" Eugene Volokh | 8.5.2026 8:51 AM From Adam Feldman (Legalytics) yesterday—unsurprising, but it's helpful that this can be shown concretely: This article examines what courts have done after lawyers learned, or should have learned, that AI-related inaccuracies had entered the record. The study began with Damien Charlotin's publicly available AI Hallucination Cases Database and independently reviewed 100 of the most recent cases in the dataset that were resolved U.S. matters involving lawyers. A stricter analytical sample included cases with a meaningful AI connection, a final judicial outcome, and enough information to evaluate counsel's response after discovery.
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