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Every incident where a lawyer got caught filing AI-fabricated citations. The Hall of Shame.

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Incidents per month

Last 18 months of published incidents, by the date of the court's order.

Mar 2025 Aug 2026

Blamed by name

ChatGPT 42 Claude 4 Gemini 3 ChatGPT-4o 1 ChatOn 1 CoCounsel 1 Eve 1 Google AI Overview 1 Grammarly 1 Morgan & Morgan’s in-house Artificial In 1 OpenCase 1 OpenLaw 1 Perplexity AI 1 Westlaw Precision 1

Counts only incidents where the filing court or the reporting named the tool.

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Caught, not sanctioned CoCounsel 2026-04-03
A brief prepared using Westlaw’s CoCounsel contained errors, and the Sixth Circuit noted them in a per curiam decision.
U.S. v. Farris · U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
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  • U.S. v. Farris involved a brief prepared using Westlaw’s CoCounsel.
  • The court found errors in the brief prepared with the AI tool.
  • No sanction is described on the page for this incident.
  • Sixth Circuit, federal court.
  • Per curiam order dated 2026-04-03; the page says the tool appears to have been used after August 2025.
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