The U.S. Supreme Court may be treating case law like it's Wikipedia, New York Times' Adam Liptak reports: "The Supreme Court has been quietly revising its decisions years after they were issued, altering the law of the land without public notice. The revisions include 'truly substantive changes in factual statements and legal reasoning,' said Richard J. Lazarus, a law professor at Harvard and the author of a new study examining the phenomenon."
Jeffrey L. Fisher, another law professor, told Liptak, "“In Supreme Court opinions, every word matters,' he said. 'When they’re changing the wording of opinions, they’re basically rewriting the law.”'
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