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Controlled Study — Legal Authority Grounding
The Legal Citation Was Correct. The Verdict Ignored It.
A controlled legal-AI study shows that correct citations can accompany verdicts that do not demonstrably depend on cited authority.
Corroboration Lineage and AI Legal Research
Four AI Tools Are Not Four Sources.
A federal sanctions order described legal briefing prepared with ClearBrief, Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini that still contained nonexistent and unsupported authorities. The case shows why agreement among multiple AI tools is not independent corroboration unless each claim is traced to verified underlying evidence.
AI Evidence and Human Authority
The Witness Never Existed. The Brief Said Otherwise.
The New Mexico Supreme Court sanctioned an attorney after a ChatGPT-assisted brief included fabricated witness testimony and inaccurate legal authority, showing why AI output must be verified before it becomes institutional evidence.
AI Authority and Promotion
The Failure Happened at Promotion, Not Generation.
A D.C. Court of Appeals order addressed a brief containing four nonexistent authorities after generative-AI search was used without verification. The failure occurred when unverified output was promoted into legal evidence and authority.
Authority Continuity
Two Current Rules Can Still Produce Institutional Discontinuity
Recent federal audits show that institutions can retain multiple current authoritative documents while their scopes or governing assumptions conflict. Authority continuity requires explicit hierarchy, derivation, semantic alignment, and conflict resolution—not merely retrieval of the current files.
AI Verification & Provenance
The Second AI Checked the First. The Source Still Didn’t.
A USPTO disciplinary matter shows the limit of AI-to-AI review: one model helped draft a patent filing and a second reviewed it, yet false and inaccurate citations to the patent’s own intrinsic record remained. Verification is not another inference layer; it is a governed return to authoritative evidence.
CONTINUITY CONTEXT
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