Legis Orbis has spent three years building tools that make Indian law easier to search — LexBot for bare acts, MCQ books for exam prep, judgment analysis on the blog. Nyaya Cosmos is a different kind of tool: instead of searching case law, you fly through it.

Nyaya Cosmos is an interactive map of Indian Supreme Court judgments, built as an explorable galaxy. It plots 139 landmark Indian cases (1950–2024) as stars, grouped into 11 legal-doctrine constellations — Basic Structure, Article 21 & Liberty, Free Speech, Equality & Dignity, Criminal Justice & Bail, Privacy & Technology, Environment, Consumer & Torts, Arbitration & Commerce, and more. Every citation between two judgments — cites, follows, overrules — is drawn as a glowing thread, so you can see, at a glance, how one case built on or dismantled another.

Why we built an interactive map of Indian Supreme Court judgments

75 years of Indian constitutional history is one of the most consequential bodies of legal reasoning in the world, but most students and even practitioners still meet it as a list of PDFs and citation strings. We wanted a way to see the shape of that history — which doctrines grew out of which, which cases still hold, and which have quietly stopped mattering.

The Graveyard of Dead Law

Not every judgment survives. Nyaya Cosmos includes a dedicated feature called the Graveyard of Dead Law — 21 judgments that have been overruled or disapproved by later decisions, each one linked to the case that overturned it. Toggle it on and the sky changes: overruled stars glow red, and you can trace exactly when and why a precedent stopped being good law. It’s one of the fastest ways we know to answer “is this case still valid?” without digging through updater services.

An era timeline, from Gopalan to Puttaswamy

Drag the Era slider and Nyaya Cosmos rewinds — stars appear only as they were actually decided, so you can watch entire doctrines assemble year by year: the narrow reading of Article 21 in A.K. Gopalan (1950), its collapse in Maneka Gandhi (1978), and its eventual expansion into the right to privacy in K.S. Puttaswamy (2017–2018).

How to use it

  • Law students & judiciary/UPSC aspirants: revise a doctrine visually before an exam — click a constellation pill and the camera flies into that cluster.
  • Advocates: quickly check whether a precedent has been overruled via the Graveyard, before you cite it.
  • Journalists & researchers: trace how a legal idea moved through the courts over decades, in a couple of clicks instead of a research memo.

Nyaya Cosmos is free, requires no login, and works in any modern browser — explore Indian case law as a galaxy at legisorbis.in/cosmos.

An educational experience by Legis Orbis. Case details are drawn from public records, curated and human-vetted, and summarised for illustration — always verify citations from official sources before relying on them. Not legal advice.