Track Changes for SCOTUS: Monitoring Post-Decision Revisions to Supreme Court Opinions

A recent study by Richard Lazarus, a Harvard Law Professor, has revealed that changes -- both minor and substantive -- are frequently made to U.S. Supreme Court opinions after they are initially published.  The study is highlighted in a recent New York Times article.  For example, the article discusses that Justice Scalia recently revised the heading of a section of a dissent he wrote in a case involving the EPA, and a sentence from Justice O'Connor's concurrence in Lawrence v. Texas (2003) was deleted in 2006. 

This week, the ABA Journal has reported that a new app has been developed which crawls slip opinions from the Supreme Court website and automatically tweets any differences that are located.  A recent tweet highlights a change from "an" to "a" in Republic of Argentina v. NML Capital, Ltd. (2014).

To access slip opinions from the U.S. Supreme Court's website from the current term of court, click here.