Find Related Judgments Without a New Search

What changed

Every judgment in Niyam now shows a panel of related judgments — the cases most closely connected to the one you have open, drawn from the full collection of Supreme Court and High Court decisions. The panel sits alongside the judgment text and updates automatically as you move from one case to the next during a session.

This works differently from running a new search. Instead of asking you to predict which keywords will find the next relevant case, it follows the connections that already exist between decisions. Cases that reason from shared principles, cite the same authorities, or address the same statutory provision surface together, so you can move through a cluster of related law by navigating from case to case rather than composing fresh queries at each step.

How to use it

1. Open any judgment from search results or from a citation in a research answer.
2. The related judgments panel appears alongside the full judgment text.
3. Scan the listed cases and open any that look relevant to the point you are researching.
4. Each new judgment you open refreshes the panel to show cases connected to that decision, so you can follow a line of authority one step at a time in either direction.
5. Navigate back to your original judgment at any point — it remains accessible as an anchor throughout the session.

Why it matters

A well-built legal argument usually rests on understanding a cluster of decisions, not one. A proposition of law draws its authority from the cases that established it, the decisions that applied and refined it over time, and the ones that considered whether it extended to different circumstances. Working through that cluster case by case using search alone is slow, and there is always a risk of missing an important decision simply because you did not land on the right keywords.

Related judgments gives you a different path in. Instead of moving outward from a keyword, you move outward from a case you already know is relevant. The connections are derived from the judgments themselves rather than from the search index, which means the cases the panel surfaces are those most likely to bear on your point.

For students mapping a legal doctrine, the same panel is a way to trace how that doctrine developed across courts and over time — following the line from a leading decision outward to the cases that shaped it, or moving forward to see how later courts handled the same question.

Good to know

• Related judgments are drawn from the full corpus of Supreme Court and High Court decisions, so connections can cross courts and jurisdictions without being limited to one level of the hierarchy.
• The panel updates to reflect whichever judgment you currently have open, not the one you started with. Following a related case to a new judgment immediately surfaces that case's own connections.
• Opening a related judgment does not lose your place. Navigate back to the original at any time.
• This feature works well alongside citation resolution: resolve a citation you encounter in a judgment, then use the related judgments panel to explore the full cluster around that case.
• The related panel reflects connections within the corpus. As with any research tool, verify that any case you intend to rely on remains good law before citing it in a submission.