Is Link Rot Destroying Stare Decisis?

Broken links are having an increasingly negative impact on citation references in academic research and case law. Hyperlinks that lead to dead-end websites are becoming more common, a phenomenon known as link rot that is becoming more common and is making it more difficult for lawyers to reference legal precedent. A study published in the Yale Journal of Law and Technology found that nearly one-third of websites cited by the U.S. Supreme Court were non-functioning, and Harvard law professor Jonathan Zittrain reports the percentage of defunct links to be closer to 50 percent.