Hello Legal Websurfer,

You can add your own backlink and/or graphic on a Supreme Court case by adding your linkurl and graphurl variables. This will enable users who click to view this case from your web page to return to your web page without having to click the back button. The graphic must be 50 x 50 pixels and will show up on the top of the case. Set graphurl=http://www.yourhomepage.com/yourgraphic.gif and linkurl=http://www.yourhomepage.com.

If you do not have a graphic, still add linkurl=http://www.yourhomepage.com and a generic linkback graphic will show up that links to the backlink URL you specified with linkurl.

Here is sample html for the adding a backlink when linking to a Supreme Court cases. This example is for Michigan Law School.

For the url to link back to we will use Michigan Law's home page and set linkurl=http://www.law.umich.edu/

For the graphic we will use a graphic of a capital M that we made for Michigan and thus set graphurl=http://www.findlaw.com/images/michigan.gif

To link to "410 U.S. 114, 115" we simply use the page number and add the backlink variables to that the backlink graphic links to Michigan Law's home page. The following would be the html:

click here to see the case with the link back graphic .

The linkback url can be different for each citation. Thus by using <a name= > tags within the paper, and then setting the linkback url to that name anchor, you can take the reader directly back to the place in the paper or article from which he or she clicked over to the cited case. For more information on the <a name= > click here .