8. A computerized reference analysis system comprising: a database storing a plurality of digital representations of references as a collection of references, each reference being an instantiation of information for a patent, patent application, publication, presentation, recording, use, or sale that is publicly accessible as of a date and includes further information of other references cited by the reference; a harvesting engine comprising a harvesting processor and a harvesting memory, the harvesting engine configured to: create a root and branch tree structure database from the database, the root and branch tree structure database storing the collection of references as root references and branch references based on citations of the respective references; receive at least one input for the generation of a seed set of potentially relevant references, interface with the root and branch tree structure database; search the root and branch tree structure database for relevant references, according to the seed set for a selectable number of generational levels of root references and branch references in the root and branch tree structure database, the search comprising: determining a primary reference and storing the primary reference in the set of relevant references; receiving a depth value defining the multigenerational citation levels in the root and branch tree structure to be searched; receiving a direction value defining the direction from the primary reference to be searched; iteratively traversing from the primary reference along the root and branch tree structure according to the direction value and the depth value to discover at least one traversed reference; and storing the traversed reference in the set of relevant references; and de-duplicate the relevant references; a ranking engine comprising a ranking processor and a ranking memory, the ranking engine configured to interface with the relevant references and order the relevant references as a set of ranked references, wherein the harvested collection of references comprises patent references each having a specification, a claim-set, and figures, and the ranking engine is configured to order the relevant references by: receiving an at-issue reference for application against the harvested collection of references, the at-issue reference comprising a patent reference having a claim-set including one or more dependent claims and one or more independent claims, parsing the claim-set of the at-issue reference to form an expanded form wherein each dependent claim includes a repetition of all of the verbiage of the underlying dependent and independent claims into individual elements, determining a frequency of each individual element in an expanded form of the claim-set as the occurrence of the element compared to the total number of words in the claim-set, accessing the harvested collection of references, weighting the harvested collection of references according to a weighting criteria, the weighting criteria based at least in part on application of the frequency of each individual element in the expanded form of the claim-set to each of the patent references in the harvested collection of references, and creating a silo of ordered relevant references; and a graphical user interface configured to present access to at least one of the relevant reference or the set of ranked references.
11. The computerized reference analysis system of claim 8 , wherein the graphical user interface is further configured to display the ordered relevant references in a ranked list.