Rising authority set
Surface authorities whose citation activity has increased in the criminal-opinion corpus, with the court URL and jurisdiction label preserved.
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Precedent Watchlist
Enter your charge family and jurisdiction and see the authority that matters split into two trendlines — cases gaining circuit traction versus cases starting to collect negative treatment. Each row links to the CourtListener opinion so you can read it, not just trust the label, and thin coverage is disclosed at the row level instead of averaged away.
“Like the rest of the CourtListener platform, this API and its documentation are open source.”
Watchlist modules
Fading authority set
Flag authorities that still appear in historical filings but have weaker current citation activity, without treating the signal as a filing recommendation.
Charge filter and coverage
Label whether the watchlist is charge-filtered or falls back to the national criminal authority pool when coverage is thin.
CourtListener source URL requirement
Suppress rows that lack a resolvable opinion URL so counsel can verify each cited authority before use.
Citation-velocity methodology
Explain the derivative table, rolling window, authority tiers, and known coverage limits before a paid report is enabled.
Weekly delta alert state
Recurring updates go out once unsubscribe handling, source URLs, and change-detection thresholds are all verified.
Rising precedent cron
Citation-velocity alerts are logged as source records; public-facing output opens once the alert pipeline meets its coverage thresholds.
UPL and stale-citation guard
Frame citation velocity as research triage only; recommendations, predictions, and uncited assertions stay out of product output.
Precedent Watchlist is in preview.
Precedent Watchlist launches once we're confident the citation-velocity and authority data are complete enough to rely on — not just present. Join the waitlist and we'll tell you when your circuit is covered.