Federal · federal court of appeals · 2024

James Snell v. United Specialty Insurance Company

Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, 28 May 2024. What the court wrote about citations that did not exist, in its own words, from the document on file.

Case record · 11th Cir.

  1. Court. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh CircuitCOURT
  2. Level. federal court of appealsLEVEL
  3. Date. 28 May 2024DATED
  4. Docket. No. 22-12581DOCKET
  5. Reporter. 102 F.4th 1208CITE
  6. Documents. one document, 1 passage quoted belowON FILE
  7. Source. CourtListenerSOURCE

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Published opinion, 28 May 2024 · source · PDF · 56 pages

But all too often, I’m afraid, they’re quite intentional — in t heir zeal, attorneys sometimes shade facts, finesse (and even omit altogether) adverse authorities, etc. So at worst, the “hallucination” problem counsels against blind -faith reliance on LLM outputs — in exactly USCA11 Case: 22-12581 Document: 36-1 Date Filed: 05/28/2024 Page: 45 of 56 22 Newsom, J., Concurring 22-12581 the same way that no conscientious judge would blind-faith rely on a lawyer’s representations. 2.

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