Google and Legal Search
Google now has a legal search engine. You first have to go to Google Scholar and then selected the “legal opinions and journals” option. I have only taken a quick look but a couple of quick thoughts: this is will be useful if you know the case name (or part of it). However, the inability to search for cases within a particular federal district court or circuit is an odd limitation (especially given the the ability to search for state cases by state). Other limitations: there is no indication if the case has been overruled, vacated, etc. (nor is there a way to Sherpadize a case) and the search tools are not as powerful as those found on Lexis or Westlaw. Hopefully, Google will work to improve this search tool.
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November 24th, 2009 at 7:48 pm
Finally! Combined with the Book Settlement (soon) and Google Scholar indexing of SSRN, this will be very, very useful. What I now need is a little utility to highlight a citation, right click, and get the opinion delivered in my browser. Sounds like a nice Thanksgiving project …