diff --git a/app/models/spotlight/solr_document_sidecar.rb b/app/models/spotlight/solr_document_sidecar.rb
index 9fadcdbcb..3185a01f4 100644
--- a/app/models/spotlight/solr_document_sidecar.rb
+++ b/app/models/spotlight/solr_document_sidecar.rb
@@ -8,7 +8,8 @@ class SolrDocumentSidecar < ActiveRecord::Base
 
     acts_as_taggable
 
-    belongs_to :exhibit, optional: false
+    # The "touch: true" ensures the exhibit's cache is invalidated when the document is updated
+    belongs_to :exhibit, optional: false, touch: true
     belongs_to :resource, optional: true
     belongs_to :document, optional: false, polymorphic: true
 
diff --git a/spec/models/spotlight/resource_spec.rb b/spec/models/spotlight/resource_spec.rb
index b29ec9196..bd9bced19 100644
--- a/spec/models/spotlight/resource_spec.rb
+++ b/spec/models/spotlight/resource_spec.rb
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # frozen_string_literal: true
 
-describe Spotlight::Resource, type: :model do
+RSpec.describe Spotlight::Resource, type: :model do
   subject(:resource) { described_class.create(id: 123, exhibit: exhibit) }
 
   let(:exhibit) { FactoryBot.create(:exhibit) }
@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@
 
       indexed_document
 
-      expect(exhibit).to have_received(:touch)
+      expect(exhibit).to have_received(:touch).twice
     end
 
     context 'with touch: false' do
diff --git a/spec/models/spotlight/solr_document_sidecar_spec.rb b/spec/models/spotlight/solr_document_sidecar_spec.rb
index 5be5f9df0..043e0c33d 100644
--- a/spec/models/spotlight/solr_document_sidecar_spec.rb
+++ b/spec/models/spotlight/solr_document_sidecar_spec.rb
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # frozen_string_literal: true
 
-describe Spotlight::SolrDocumentSidecar, type: :model do
+RSpec.describe Spotlight::SolrDocumentSidecar, type: :model do
   let(:exhibit) { FactoryBot.create(:exhibit) }
 
   before do
@@ -55,4 +55,15 @@
       its(:to_solr) { is_expected.to include 'a_hash_field' => ['b'] }
     end
   end
+
+  describe '#update' do
+    before do
+      subject.save
+    end
+
+    it 'poisions the exhibit cache' do
+      expect { subject.update(data: { 'a_tesim' => 1, 'b_tesim' => 2, 'c_tesim' => 3 }) }
+        .to(change { subject.exhibit.updated_at })
+    end
+  end
 end