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The Sanctions Tracker

The running record of AI-fabrication sanctions.

A dated, sourced dataset on AI citation sanctions: public decisions addressing fabricated or misused AI citations, with case, court, date, amount and holding. Refreshed monthly. Cited as market fact, never aimed at a person.

The deep-read
The count

The market pain is live.

2046decisions addressing AI-fabricated or misused citations, worldwidepublic database of AI hallucination cases, count as of July 2, 2026
2025+when the overwhelming majority of those decisions were issuedsame database
$145Kin AI-fake-citation sanctions in the first quarter of 2026aggregated from published orders
74.7%of lawyers name accuracy their top AI concern2024 bar technology survey

Counts are refreshed monthly from the public database and published orders. Each figure links to its source in the dataset. The Tracker never names or targets an individual lawyer or firm; the decisions are public, the lesson is professional.

The deep-read

Published as a warning.

A California appellate court imposed a $10,000 sanction after finding that 21 of 23 quotations in a brief were fabricated, and published the opinion expressly as a warning to the bar.

The deep-read walks through what the court found, what the lawyer relied on, and why “trust but verify” was the failure, not the safeguard. It is the tribe’s origin story, and it is told from the public record only.

The context pieces cover the research finding that leading legal-research tools hallucinate 17% to 33% of the time, and the survey finding that accuracy is the profession’s top AI concern.

Pattern

What the decisions have in common

  • A real tool, used without a check the tool could not perform
  • Citations that resolved to real cases far less often than the drafter assumed
  • A court that published the sanction as a warning, not a fine
ⓘNot legal advice. This material describes methods and published law for information. It is not a substitute for a lawyer’s judgment on a specific matter. Where it states law, it states the law as of the date shown.
Monthly refresh, quarterly report

Journalism, not marketing.

State of AI Sanctions: the dataset, refreshed monthly, and a quarterly write-up of what the orders now say.

The first quarterly report is being written. When it is out it lands here as a linkable page, not a gated download: no form, no product pitch, no mechanism, no price. The counts above are sourced to the public database and to published orders, and each figure is traceable to its order.

Ground rules

What it is not

  • Not a lead magnet. There is nothing to subscribe to on this page.
  • Not aimed at a person. No lawyer or firm is named or targeted; the decisions are public, the lesson is professional.
  • Not a product pitch. The Tracker exists whether or not you ever talk to us.