The Supreme Court has been quietly revising its decisions
years after they were issued, altering the law of the land
without public notice. The revisions include “truly
substantive changes in factual statements and legal
reasoning,” said Richard J. Lazarus, a law professor at
Harvard and the author of a new study examining the
phenomenon.
The NYT spent a whole high-profile article highlighting the issue of a silently shifting court record. This completely removes the "silently".