Follow a matter from first order to final appeal.
See how the proceedings of one litigation connect across courts — the order under challenge, the appeal that followed it, the dates in between, and which step you are reading. Built from links detected in judgment text, not from a hand-maintained docket.
Illustrative — not a real case
The shape of a litigation, not just one judgment.
A single judgment rarely tells you where a matter has been or where it stands now. A case journey adds that context, drawn from the record rather than asserted.
Appeal relationships
How an order at one court connects to a later proceeding at another — a first appeal, a second appeal, a special leave petition, a writ against a tribunal order.
The challenged order
Where the link records it, which order a later proceeding arose from — shown as "In appeal from" or "On remand from", with the evidence behind it.
Dates in sequence
When each order in the chain was passed, so the timeline of a matter is visible at a glance.
Connected citations
Judgments that cite, or are cited by, the proceeding you're reading — surfaced alongside the appeal chain itself.
Where this judgment sits
The judgment you are reading is marked within the chain — not a live docket status, and not a prediction of what happens next.
Honest gaps
Where a link is missing, unreviewed, or simply not available, the page says so — rather than filling the gap with a guess.
How links are made and checked.
Every link in a case journey is proposed automatically and can be checked against the text it came from — nothing is added by inference alone.
Detected from the text
Links are proposed from case citations and cross-references inside judgment text — the appeal number, the impugned order, the court and date it names.
Evidence paragraph kept
The passage that produced the link is stored alongside it, so the basis for the connection can be read, not just trusted.
"Why is this linked?" on the case page
Open any linked proceeding and see the underlying evidence directly — the same paragraph the system used to make the connection.
Review states, not one flat "linked"
A link is shown as reviewed or as "linked automatically, not yet reviewed." Two coordinate High Courts are never shown as an appeal of one another.
What Case Journey does not yet cover.
Case Journey draws on 6.4M+ judgments from the Supreme Court and India's High Courts, 1950–2026 — but a case journey is only as complete as what has been indexed and linked so far. Read this before you rely on a chain being complete.
- Case journey coverage is incomplete and grows as more judgments are indexed and reviewed.
- Links are detected automatically from judgment text; the evidence paragraph is kept so a link can be checked, not just accepted.
- Links not yet reviewed are labelled "linked automatically, not yet reviewed" rather than shown as confirmed.
- Two different High Courts are never shown as an appeal of each other — coordinate courts are not treated as a hierarchy.
- Many trial-court and District Court orders are not in the corpus, so an early stage of a matter can be missing even when later stages are linked.
- None of this predicts an outcome. It describes what is on record and how it connects — verify every step against the official court record before you rely on it.
Read more: coverage in the documentation, the methodology, and the editorial policy.
Trace a matter you already know.
Search a judgment, open its case page, and follow the appeal chain as far as the corpus links it — checking the evidence behind every step.
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