What "insufficient authority" means, and why it is a feature
When the corpus lacks solid authority for a question, Molao says so instead of inventing a case. That refusal is a safeguard, not a fault.
Sometimes an answer will say there is no sufficiently reliable authority for your question. This is deliberate, and it is one of the most important things Molao does.
Why Molao holds back
A general AI will always produce an answer, even when that means inventing a plausible-looking case that does not exist. For a lawyer, a fabricated citation is worse than no answer at all — it sends you down a dead end and can end up in front of a court. Molao would rather tell you the corpus is thin than manufacture authority.
What to do next
- Rephrase the question — a different angle sometimes reaches authority the first wording missed.
- Check the other jurisdiction, if your point could arise in both.
- Broaden your search terms, or use Filters to widen the courts you are drawing from.
- Treat the gap as real: it may mean the point is genuinely unsettled in the reported law.
"Insufficient authority" is about what the corpus holds, not about whether an answer exists in law. Read the coverage article to understand what is and is not in the corpus.
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