Our New Authorities Table Allows Traveling to the Past

For a long time we've had a feature that allowed you to look at the items that cite an opinion, letting you to look into the future and see what cases found it important down the line. As of today, we're announcing the complimentary feature that allows easy travel into the past. Starting immediately, when you look at almost any case in our collection you'll see an Authorities section in its sidebar.

For example, Roe v. Wade looks like this:

This section shows the top five opinions that were cited by the one you are looking at. If you wish to see all of the opinions it cited there is a link at the bottom that takes you to the new Table of Authorities page, which shows everything:

Now, when you're looking at an opinion, you can easily travel through time to either opinions that came later or ones that came before. Doc Brown would be proud.

Posted by: Michael Lissner