listCitingDecisions

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Incoming citation edges. Give EITHER `law` + `ref` (which decisions apply this statute provision) OR `case` (which decisions cite this decision) — exactly one of the two. Results are ranked by citation weight, then court tier, then recency. Read the ranking honestly: for a provision with many EU decisions the first ten can be almost all CJEU, and the German courts appear only further down. If `total` exceeds what you read, page on with `offset` (`pagination.next_offset`) before concluding anything about national case law. NEWEST FIRST: pass `sort: "recent"` when the question is about current case law ('fünf aktuelle Entscheidungen zu …'). Paging works the same way. This ordering is bounded — for a handful of procedural giants (§ 154 VwGO, § 708 ZPO) it cannot be computed inside the query budget, and then the answer comes back in WEIGHT order and says so in `sort_applied` and `sort_note`. Check `sort_applied` before you describe a list as the most recent decisions. For a decision, each citer carries `citing_rn`: the Randnummer of the CITING decision's own text that holds the citation, as that court numbered it, and the URL is anchored to it. COVERAGE: the graph is built over federal case law. A Land provision can answer `total: 0` because it is not indexed, not because no court has cited it — `coverage.complete_for_this_norm` tells you which, and for a Land provision you should fall back to `search` on the provision's wording.