- Current Version 0.6.2.0
- Improved support for Firefox 4.0.x
- Preliminary support for Firefox 5.x
- Improved parsing of author name for some webcites.
- 0.6.1.5
- Improved support for Firefox 4.0.x
- Changes to accomodate WestlawNext C.A.D.C. formatting of
court name.
- 0.6.1.2
- Preliminary changes to handle new Lexis User Interface.
- Added abbreviation for "County" as "Cnty." per 19th Edition
of the Bluebook, table T6.
- Preliminary support added for Firefox 4.x
- Improved handling of Federal Appendix reporter.
- Improved handling of cases with "Estate of" captions.
- 6.0.9
- Corrected an issue with spanned pages greater than 1000.
- Improved Texas format citations for Houston appeals.
- Improved accuracy of citations covered by rule 10.2.1(a).
- Fixed a bug when the title of a case has two ampersands,
when pasting into Wordperfect.
- Improved part name handling in ex rel cases.
- Improved en banc detection for federal decisions.
- Corrected an issue with some sources in WestlawNext.
- Corrected an issue with copying of large amounts of text
from web pages.
- 0.6.0.2
- Full WestlawNext compatibility, with support
caselaw from all jurisdictions, as well as for
statutes, law reviews, and other sources in WestlawNext.
- Improved handling of state pronoun substitution.
- Improved Texas appellate citations for use in Texas (now
includes district for Houston appellate courts per Texas rules)
- Improved dissenting opinion detection.
- Improved rule 10.2.1(f) handling of "State of ..." party
names.
- Added a preferences default for location of parenthetical.
- Versions 0.5.8.x and later have preliminary support for
some
WestlawNext materials.
- Further improvements in N.Y. parentheticals (dropping N.Y.
from parenthetical where proper)
- Made changes to work around an incompatibility with X-Marks.
- Corrected improper abbreviation for July and June in some
parentheticals.
- Improved N.Y. court parentheticals.
- Improved Texas Court of Appeals parentheticals for citing
outside of Texas. (Tex. App. and Tex. Ct. App. are two different
courts)
- Improved parentheticals for Texas appellate cases
- Fixed a bug in processing Fed. Circuit parentheticals in
Lexis.
- 0.5.6.8
- Fixed a bug in processing double corporation indicators.
- Corrected parenthetical for Mass. Court of Appeals to use
"Mass. App. Ct."
- Fixed an issue with commonwealth states and abbreviation of
"Commonwealth" to "Commonw."
- 0.5.6.4
- Added preliminary support for accessing Lexis via EZproxy
(used by some school libraries).
- Added option "Add parallel cite to USPQ if available" for
patent bar users (only used if you select "Federal" jurisdiction).
- Firefox 3.6.x compatibility implemented and tested.
- Added abbreviation for "Companies" as "Cos." per table T.6.
- Improved citing of some treaties (added date per Rule
21.4.4)
- 0.5.6.2
- Sped up processing and initialization.
- Fixed some spelling and grammar on various screens.
- Converted to SQL-based navigation updating.
- Improved detection of United States as a party.
- Improved rule 10.2(b) compliance for court names of state
appellate courts.
- Now includes partial support for text.westlaw.com.
- Fixed an issue with determining proper reporter to use for
California state opinions when being cited outside of California.
- Improved identification of some state statutory
compilations.
- Corrected court name bug for Colorado Court of Appeals.
- 0.5.5.6
- Improved handling of text copied from complex opinions in
Westlaw.
- Improved parenthetical court name for Florida DCA citations
in Lexis.
- Changed method of extracting text from the source document
to work around a change in Firefox 3.5.x handling of text ranges.
- Embedded formatting (bold and italics) is now preserved
when copying from an opinion that includes bold or italicized text.
- Fixed handling of Ohio format citations for opinions
without a webcite.
- Changed range selection code for other Westlaw sources to
new version to work around Firefox 3.5.x changes.
- 0.5.5.1
- Changed method of extracting text from the source document to
for a change in Firefox 3.5 handling of text ranges.
- Embedded formatting (bold and italics) is now preserved when
copying from an opinion that includes bold or italicized text.
- 0.5.4.9
- Fixed a nagging bug introduced by the latest version of
Firefox, that was preventing CiteGnie from finding pinpoints in some
documents.
- Fixed a bug where a parallel cite to the "W Va." reporter
was not being dropped when citing outside of W.Va.
- Fixed a bug that would cause a parallel cite to the state
reporter to be included when citing for a federal court, if the name of
the first party in the caption was "United States."
- Improved pincites when an opinion contains a slip citation
to a *-page from another opinion.
- Improved dissenting opinion detection accuracy (reduced
false positives.)
- Now handles WL citing of "McCanless" reporter from
Tennessee.
- Now handles a bug in Firefox 3.5.x occurs when the text
selection begins at a * page number. Unfortunately, to handle the
error for now, you lose any embedded formatting from the opinion such
as italics or bold.
- Cites Kentucky Court of Appeals as the state's highest
court before 1976.
- Full compatibility with Firefox 3.5.
- Now handles most Westlaw documents opened in new windows or
new tabs.
- 0.5.3.2
- Now
handles the change to page layouts made by
Westlaw over the May 16, 2009 weekend. All users need to upgrade
to this version or later to maintain compatibility with Westlaw.
- Improved en banc detection (potential false positives when
rehearing en banc was denied)
- Fixed a bug for parentheticals in some citations when the
court was D.C.Cir.
- 0.5.2.5
- Fixed an issue that sometimes caused the "What's New"
dialog to display more than once.
- Corrected misspelling of "Minnesota" in configuration
screen.
- Corrected abbreviations for some state criminal appellate
courts.
- 0.5.2.1
- Fixed a bug that affected public domain citations for Utah,
N.D. Wis, Vt., and S.D.
- Now corrects improper Westlaw abbreviation of "Pub." when used
for
"Publishing".
- Fixed a bug where the configuration option to use all
digits for spanned pagination was
being ignored.
- 0.5.1.2
- Now corrects "D.C.D.C." sometimes used for the court name by
Westlaw to "D.D.C."
- Added "L.P." as a corporation indicator for double-corporation
suppression per Rule 10.2.1(h)
- Fixed a bug for slip opinions when checking for "MISC"
reporter when second reporter is N.Y.S.
- Improved en banc opinion detection.
- Fixed a problem when citing some Restatements.
- Added additional diagnostic information to messages when
CiteGenie is unable to create a citation.
- Better handling of "And" and "&" in parsing captions in
adversary actions.
- Now replaces "Petition of" with "In re" per Rule 10.2.1(a)
- Better parsing of captions where multiple parties are
terminated by a semicolon.
- Now handles Vermont rule for using paragraph numbers for
out-of-state decisions (where they are available).
- CiteGenie works with Firefox 3.1 Beta 2, but not with
Firefox 3.1 Beta 1.
- 0.5.1.0
- Improved citing abilities for the Restatements.
- Added an "Abbreviation Test" to the "About" tab of the
configuration screen, so users can test abbreviation functions.
- Added a new feature when using Westlaw, to provide an
adversary case title to
proceedings that also have a non-adversary title (e.g. adversary
bankruptcy cases) per Bluebook rule 10.2.1(a).
- Added parenthetical parallel citations for SCotUS cases
before 1875.
- Added ability to parse older cases where no reporter is
provided for *-pagination (e.g. 11 F.Cas.
654).
- Added
ability
to
handle
"Date
Not
Given"
in
place
of date in some old opinions.
- Fixed
a
bug
that
left
"
- Fixed a rare bug that would leave the pinpoint page off by
one page when the word "at" immediately preceded the
*-pagination indicator.
- Corrected misspelling of "Minnesota" in abbreviations table.
- Fixed a bug that could delete all reporters when each
reporter's name included the state's name.
- Added parenthetical year to law journal citations.
- Added
the
ability
to
handle
improper
West
abbreviation
for Michigan courts
(e.g.
- Added a new configuration option to use ALWD citation
format for court cases. It is not fully implemented yet, but for
now it will:
- use ALWD abbreviations (w/o apostrophes) in most cases
- drop docket number from electronic citations
- use the extra space in footnote notations (e.g., "n. 9")
- drop "Ct." from parentheticals
- Adds additional error reporting information.
- 0.5.0.6
- Implemented additional checks to see if navigation information
needs an update.
- Added a new jurisdiction selection for "N.Y. Tanbook" so users
in N.Y. have an option for traditional N.Y. (Bluebook) format or N.Y.
Tanbook format compliance.
- Improved court naming for older federal district court
designations in Westlaw.
- Improved citing of some secondary sources, such as FCC Rcd.
- Improved parentheticals for state trial court decisions.
- Fixed bug that left a double-space before * pages in slip
opinions.
- Fixed bug caused CiteGenie to fail if a user had left some of
their options blank.
- NOTE: CiteGenie will not work in Firefox-3.1-Beta-1 due to a
bug in that version of Firefox.
- 0.5.0.1
- Full Lexis support is implemented
- You can now use the ESC key to close the all the results
windows after invoking CiteGenie.
- Added
an option on the "Advanced" configuration tab to ignore formatting
(bold, italics) in the original text you are quoting from.
- Added a button to the CiteGenie results window to show
jurisdiction info.
- Improved citing of U.S. Constitution.
- Improved citing of "State ex rel..." decisions ("State" will be
replaced with State name if citing to a foreign court).
- Improved citing of Ohio cases when Ohio webcite is the only
cite available.
- Improved Bluebook compliance for citing N.Y.A.D. cases.
- 0.4.9.2Beta2
- Improved citing of law review journals (now gives pinpoints if
*-pagination is present).
- WEST:No more truncation of long case names.
- Lexis support is even better now, including:
- LEX:Works for law review journals and secondary sources such
as ALR.
- LEX:Works for all unreported cases.
- LEX:Works for all state and federal statutes and regulations.
- LEX:Cleans up headnote notations from text.
- Fixed a bug introduced in the last version on displaying user's
registration information.
- 0.4.5.1Beta1
- Lexis support is vastly improved now, including:
- LEX:Works for all state and federal reported cases.
- LEX:Works for most unreported cases.
- LEX:Works for most federal statutes.
- LEX:Works for most state statutes.
- LEX:Warns if negative direct history is indicated.
- LEX:Includes footnote parsing/citation.
- LEX:Citation rules for all 50 states implemented.
- New feature: The CiteGenie Jurisdiction selection is now
available in the status bar in the bottom right-hand corner of the
browser.
- You can now use the ESC key to close the results window after
invoking CiteGenie.
- 0.4.1.1Beta1
- Improved party name abbreviations compliance when a party's
name is a single abbreviatable word (e.g. West v. Lamnick).
- Fixed a bug in detecting N.Y. state decisions properly.
- Improved compliance with latest N.Y. state style manual
(http://www.nycourts.gov/reporter/New_Styman.htm).
- Improved California state reporter parsing.
- Fixed erroneous expiration notice on the configuration page.
- Changed how italics/underlining is handled to comply better
with Bluebook citations for Internet publications.
- Improved italics/underline pasting into MS Word.
- Improved error reporting.Improved detection and correction of
improper abbreviations in case titles.
- Added an info button to jurisdiction selection to provide more
information about that jurisdiction's citation rules.
- NOTE: CiteGenie will not work in Firefox-3.1-Beta-1 due to a
bug in that version of Firefox.
- 0.4.0.3
- Several parts of the program have been rewritten to improve
performance.
- Improved Texas citation format for Texas appellate courts (per
Texas practice).
- Shortened the URI for errata reports to avoid 414 errors.
- 0.4.0.1Beta8
- Software registration is now enabled, for users approaching the
end of their trial period.
- Improved Texas citation format for Texas appellate courts (now
includes city).
- Fixed a bug that put an extra space in parentheticals for some
public-domain citation formats.
- Improved speed of parsing large documents.
- Improved compatibility with Jureeka.
- Added alert message for Lexis citations.
- NOTE: CiteGenie will not work in Firefox 3.1 Beta-1 due to a
bug in that version of Firefox. We hope this will be be addressed in
the next version of Firefox 3.1x.
Changelog for prior versions is
here.
- To do soon
- add checkbox to notification screen
- handle "{Trial Order)" and unpaginated orders
- nicer handling of results dialog sub-messages
- Better warning message if pinpoint = 0 (include reporter).
- handle FN* and FN� (which return NaN)
- speed up parsing for large opinions
- bug when first listed reporter has no pinpoints, but the second
does (
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