 In English legal literature, volumes of judicial reports included lists of cases cited in that volume starting with "Raymond's Reports" (1743) and followed by "Douglas's Reports" (1783).Simon Greenleaf (1821) published an alphabetical list of cases with notes on later decisions affecting the precedential authority of the original decision.The first true citation index dates to the 1860 publication of Labatt's "Table of Cases...California...", followed in 1872 by Wait's "Table of Cases...New York...".