Recorded history / future context
A citation is a record.
Authority is another claim.
Seven selected Supreme Court opinions make one narrow question inspectable: which recorded opinions were available when Green was decided, and what does its own text say about them?
01 / Exact bounded result
The Green time slice has four selected prior opinions
All seven opinions remain in the source record. The 1968 view admits four earlier records, keeps Green as the target decision, and excludes two later opinions from its historical inputs.
02 / Official chronology
Earlier, target, later
GovInfo United States Reports decision dates define the time slice. Click an opinion to inspect both providers and its exact source links.
03 / Citation graph
Recorded arrows point from citing to cited opinion
The gray layer is CourtListener's native `opinion.cites` relation. Orange dashed overlays are the four separately attributed ways Green treats those citations.
CITES / recordedTREATMENT / attributedLATER / excluded at Green date
04 / Evidence inspector
One opinion, two provider records
Provider citation totals are displayed for orientation only. They do not participate in the time slice, treatment layer, or authority status.
05 / Citation versus normative status
Four citations; zero inferred binding claims
Every row starts with a native citation. A treatment label appears only because it is attributed to a precise locator in the official Green opinion. Binding status remains unknown in this model.
| Earlier opinion | CITES | Attributed treatment | Binding status | Provider count |
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06 / Derived graph ablation
Withhold Brown II without rewriting history
Turn the ablation on to remove one node and its incident edges from the derived 1968 view. This tests graph reachability only; it supplies no legal conclusion.
07 / Source disagreement
Conflicting dates stay visible
Two records disagree across providers. The model preserves both and declares why GovInfo is used for the temporal projection; it does not guess what CourtListener meant.
08 / Historical Load
Undefined is the correct result here
—NOT EVALUATED
null, not zero09 / Reading discipline
What this release can and cannot establish
Citation
Sixteen CourtListener-native links say that one selected opinion cites another.
Treatment
Four labels summarize how Green discusses earlier opinions at exact official locators.
Binding status
No hierarchy rule or citation count is converted into binding authority.
Cohort
Seven opinions form a research selection, not a complete doctrine or current-law statement.
Counterfactual
Withholding a node changes graph connectivity, never the recorded source history.