Is it still good law?

Every one of the 2411 authorities here has been searched for later treatment, and each sits under one of the answers below. 1082 of them are the ones where the answer is not a clean yes — overruled in whole or in part, overtaken by an amendment, or checked without a conclusion being reached. Pick a status to see them with the note that explains it.

Why this page exists. A case law library that says what a judgment held, without saying whether it still stands, is worse than no library at all — it produces confident submissions built on law that moved. Dilip N. Shroff, Kaushalya, Hindustan Steel and Sandvik Asia are all still quoted every week, and all four have been overtaken in part. Each note below says what changed and where that was found.

Read this one first

Not a status — a cross-cut of every entry that carries a warning on its face.

Still cited, and still a trap The entries where the decision is quoted every week and the caveat is not. Start here. 309 entries

By status

Worst warning first.

Overruled Superseded by a later decision of equal or higher authority. 22 entries Partly overruled — read this first Part of the reasoning has been displaced by a later decision. The note says which part. 18 entries Superseded by amendment The provision it interprets has since been changed. 169 entries Under appeal, and the appeal has not been decided The decision is itself under a live, undecided challenge - leave granted, an appeal pending, or the judgment stayed. It stands until it is disturbed, but it is not settled, and a reply that presents it as settled can be answered. 33 entries High Courts differ on this point Another High Court has taken the opposite view on the same point and no Supreme Court decision has resolved it. Which way it goes may depend on where your matter is. 57 entries Validity check could not be completed A validity check was attempted and the result is mixed or inconclusive — the note says what was and was not established. Treat with extra caution. 6 entries The judgment itself could not be reached, so no check was possible The judgment or order itself could not be retrieved from any source open to this library, so no check of its later treatment was possible. The entry records where the search was tried. 32 entries Searched for later treatment; none was found. That is not the same as a source affirming it A search for later treatment was run and nothing overruling, doubting or displacing it was found. That is weaker than "good law", which needs a source positively applying or affirming it: absence of contrary authority is not the same as support. 745 entries Still good law A source was found applying or affirming it, and none was found overruling or doubting it. 1329 entries

Every entry has been looked at. Not every one could be settled.

There is no backlog: every authority here has been searched for later treatment — a decision overruling or doubting it, an amendment overtaking the provision it construes, an SLP, a circular changing the administrative position. Where the answer was found, the entry carries it with the page it was checked against. Where it was not, the entry sits under validity check could not be completed and its note records what was searched and which sources refused — because an upgrade to “still good law” needs a page that actually applies or follows the decision, and finding nothing bad is not the same thing.

None of this is the same as being verified: no chartered accountant has yet read the certified copies and signed the summaries off, and every page still says so. It does mean that when a page says a decision still stands, someone went and looked, and can show you where.