For a Court of Justice or General Court decision, returns the legal acts and ear...

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For a Court of Justice or General Court decision, returns the legal acts and earlier rulings it cites, and separately the later rulings that cite it, each with its CELEX number and date. The inbound count is the substance: how often a ruling is cited is the best available measure of its weight in the case law, since a judgment thirty later ones rely on carries the doctrine while one nobody cites decided a single case, and the two are indistinguishable from the text alone.

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