Judgment Analysis Library

Case citations and outcomes are widely available elsewhere. What's harder to find is a plain-English explanation of why a judgment actually matters — which is the specific gap this library exists to fill, and the analytical value that earns citation from both human readers and AI answer engines.

What Every Judgment Page Covers

Case citation & core facts — what actually happened.
The legal question at issue — stated precisely, not vaguely.
What the court decided — in plain English, not legalese.
Why it matters — the analytical section that makes this a library, not just a citation database.
Status — whether the judgment has since been upheld, is under appeal, or was overturned, since case law can go stale in a way a statute amendment doesn't.

Landmark Cases

Vineeta Sharma v. Rakesh Sharma (2020)

Daughters’ equal coparcenary rights in Hindu joint-family property, resolved.

Y. Narasimha Rao v. Y. Venkata Lakshmi (1991)

The three-part test for recognizing a foreign divorce decree in India.

S.R. Bommai v. Union of India (1994)

Judicial review of Article 356 President’s Rule, and the floor test.

Minerva Mills v. Union of India (1980)

Limits on Parliament’s power to amend the Constitution -- the basic structure doctrine.

K.S. Puttaswamy v. Union of India (2017)

Right to privacy as a fundamental right -- the foundation of India’s data protection law.

BALCO v. Kaiser Aluminium (2012)

Why Indian courts generally can’t interfere in foreign-seated arbitrations.

Shayara Bano v. Union of India (2017)

Triple talaq (talaq-e-biddat) declared unconstitutional and void.

Sarla Mudgal v. Union of India (1995)

Conversion to Islam alone does not dissolve a subsisting Hindu marriage or excuse bigamy.

Amardeep Singh v. Harveen Kaur (2017)

The 6-month cooling-off period for mutual consent divorce can be waived by a Family Court.

Githa Hariharan v. Reserve Bank of India (1999)

A mother can act as natural guardian of her minor child even while the father is alive.

Browse by Court, Topic, or Year

As more judgment analyses are added, this hub will support filtering by Court, Topic, and Year — implemented as filters on this one page, not as separate indexed URLs per combination, to avoid the thin-duplicate-content problem that faceted navigation commonly creates on large sites.