Sushanta (student) 02 August 2009

Query regarding Supreme court judgments

Hello Friends,

I am not a Law student, but form my research work , I am analysing the supreme court of India judgments available at https://www.commonlii.org/in/cases/INSC/ .

Could you please tell me how to know :---

How many judgments are rreferring to a given judgment ?

In other words, if there is a judgment given in 1970, so how can we know , how many judgments which were delivered after 1970, has referred to that particular judgment ?

Thanks in advance.

~Sushanta

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H. S. Thukral (Lawyer) 02 August 2009

You can not find this information on the website you have referred to. There are other websites like Indlaw.com, manupatra, scconline etc who provide this information. These are paid sites.

Kiran Kumar (Lawyer) 02 August 2009

try to look into SC website.

www.supremecourtofindia.nic.in

if u dont find any info there then, make an application under RTI with the Registrar of the SC, whatever judgments are reported are reported with the permission of the court.

or u may take this information individually from the popular publishers.

Sushanta (student) 03 August 2009

Hello Mr Singh / Mr Kiran ,

Thanks a lot for your quick responses.

Could you please tell me then what are "CITATOR INFO" ( I pasted for reference from one of the judgment ).

I was under the impression that it helps us to find the no. of judgements whcih are referring to the current judgment . Could you please enlighten this point ?

CITATION:
1952 AIR 366 1952 SCR 1112

CITATOR INFO :
F        1952 SC 369   (31)
MV        1953 SC 252   (44)
F        1953 SC 333   (16)
R        1955 SC 661   (35)
F        1956 SC 158   (9)
RF
    1957 SC 699   (35)
R        1958 SC 578   (133)
R        1958 SC1006   (11)
F        1959 SC 149   (15,28)
F        1960 SC 595   (10)
R
    1961 SC 41   (19)
D        1961 SC 65   (17)
RF        1961 SC 315   (25)
D        1962 SC1733   (9,11,12)
R        1963 SC 980   (9,12)
R        1963 SC1207   (42)
R        1964 SC1752   (5,8,10)
RF        1967 SC1643   (249)
R        1971 SC 477   (4)
RF        1971 SC 870   (19)
RF        1973 SC1461   (184,185,699,700,701,705,1100,
RF        1973 SC2555   (5)
RF        1974 SC1510   (7)
RF        1975 SC1564   (10,12,13,24,49,59)
RF        1980 SC1468   (15)
F        1985 SC1367   (33)
RF        1989 SC 190   (11)