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Case law, also known as precedent or common law, is the body of prior judicial decisions that guide judges deciding issues before them. Depending on the relationship between the deciding court and the precedent, case law may be binding or merely persuasive.
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Feb 27, 2024 · CAP includes all official, book-published United States case law — every volume designated as an official report of decisions by a court within the United States. Available via API and bulk download, some search capabilities available.
- Cynthia Pittson
- 2009
Aug 20, 2024 · Full case text can be freely viewed or downloaded but you must register for an account to do so, and currently you may view or download no more than 500 cases per day. In addition, research scholars can qualify for bulk data access by agreeing to certain use and redistribution restrictions.
- Elizabeth Wells
- 2013
Jul 7, 2023 · A research guide to help you locate free case law on the internet using Google Scholar, CourtListener, Caselaw Access Project, FindLaw, and Justia.
- Introduction
- Finding Cases in Other Sources
- Finding Cases by Searching
- Finding Cases by Browsing
- Using a Relevant Case to Find More Cases
- Validation of Cases
- Dockets
Reading court decisions is a central part of the law school curriculum. As you’ve seen, however, the legal research process frequently begins with secondary sources and statutes, which can then lead you to relevant case law. With a few cases already in hand, you can next focus on searching for cases more directly and using them as a means for findi...
We recommend starting your research with secondary sources not only because they provide you with an overview (and sometimes an in-depth review) of the law, but also because they direct you to relevant primary sources, case law included; indeed, some secondary sources, like the American Law Reports and the Restatements, center on case law. It’s alw...
Full-text searching is perhaps the most straightforward, though not always the most efficient, way of looking for cases. It’s generally a good practice to set your jurisdiction first before running a search in the main search boxes on Westlaw and Lexis. Here are a few types of full-text searches you can run: Natural language searching: simply ty...
An alternative approach to finding cases is to browse cases by subject. Both Westlaw and Lexis classify cases by subject, allowing you to retrieve relevant cases with the click of a button. Westlaw offers subject browsing through its Key Number System, which includes hundreds of broad legal topics that are each divided into many more subtopics, oft...
Once you’ve located at least one relevant case, you can use that case to find additional relevant cases. The most obvious way to find more cases is to read the opinion and note which decisions the court cites. A second way is to use the headnotes that the editors at Westlaw and Lexis have added to the opinion. Each headnote covers what the editors ...
After finding relevant cases, it’s important to validate them to make sure they’re still good law. Citators are a useful tool for validating cases because they’re designed to list any negative treatment your case has received. The citator on Westlaw is known as KeyCite and uses a series of flags to indicate a case’s validity: Lexis’s citator is c...
While Westlaw and Lexis make available some court filings, the best way to access court dockets while in law school is through Bloomberg Law, which pulls docket information and court filings from the fee-based federal courts docket system, PACER, without charging student users a fee. The dockets search is available on the Bloomberg Law home page: ...
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Oct 30, 2015 · Between 2013 and 2018, the Harvard Law School Library digitized over 40 million pages of U.S. court decisions in collaboration with legal startup Ravel Law, transforming them into a dataset of over 6.7 million cases that represent 360 years of U.S. legal history.
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Apr 8, 2020 · This update makes all cases in the CAP case browser available as PDF, digitized from the collections of Harvard Law School Library. When viewing a case, just select the “view PDF” option above the title. We’re also making volume-level PDFs available as part of CAP downloads.
