JustCite has been offering a visually mapped
citator for several years.
(this recalls a library school exercise I used to assign in the old days prior to there being online
citators for UK cases — the exercise had students «note up» the famous Jarvis v. Swan Tours decision.
Not exact matches
In a review I wrote about it soon after its launch, I gave the service credit
for «getting into the game with swagger» by loading up on primary legal content, creating its own editorial enhancements, and developing its own
citator to rival Shepard's and KeyCite.
For cases, of course we don't have access to other publishers»
citators so we have to infer that «J.E. 2006 ‑ 716», «SOQUIJ AZ ‑ 50363026», and «[2006] Q.J. No. 2519 (QL)» are actually all references to 2006 QCCA 413 (CanLII).
For that, Andreozzi maintains, you get virtually everything that Westlaw and LexisNexis have — all federal and state primary law, a top - tier
citator, national and international dockets, and in - depth news and business intelligence drawn from Bloomberg's global network.
This feature of legal information is being exploited by virtually all providers
for use in hyperlinking, to create
citators, to provide the ability to note - up documents, and to rank search results.
Civil law jurisdictions,
for example, lack U.S. tools like
citators and case digests because of the reduced role cases play in systems that do not adhere to stare decisis.
CanLEX is a a website which hosts some open APIs (application programming interface) that give tools
for, among other things, automating links to the CanLII Reflex
citator within a users documents... [more]
When it officially launched in December 2009, I wrote a review giving it credit
for «getting into the game with swagger» by loading up on primary legal content, creating its own editorial enhancements, and developing its own
citator to rival Shepard's and KeyCite.
They also include references to a competitor's electronic citations when they appear in the original judgment being reviewed by editorial staff
for the purpose of updating the publisher's own case
citator.
So far, WeCite's
citator covers every outgoing citation in a Supreme Court decision
for the last 20 years.
Casetext has just started adding
citator treatment
for federal appellate cases and will eventually add state supreme and appellate court cases.
Additionally, Bloomberg Law's
citator, BCite, is of limited help: it doesn't reference headnotes in cases (even if BNA headnotes exist
for the case) or include references to statutes and secondary sources.
Within Authority Check, Bad Law Bot flags cases
for which it sees negative treatment; however, Fastcase itself warns that «this is not a complete
citator like Shepard's.»
CasemakerPRO includes CaseCheck + (Casemaker's
citator); Daily Digest (a service that summarizes state and federal appellate cases, not available
for all jurisdictions) and CiteCheck (which extracts Bluebook - formatted citations from uploaded documents and provides a report identifying cases that are still good law).
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For an in - depth comparison of
citators, read Are All Citators Create
citators, read Are All
Citators Create
Citators Created Equal?
Electronic
Citator Treatment Terms
for Quickcite, Shepard's and KeyCiteCanada
With regard to case
citators, both the Canadian Case Citations and the Quickcite case
citators encompass all of the various law reports published in the Canadian market and effectively direct the researcher to alternative sources of the same case and alternative summaries and classification systems
for every case.
I worked at Lexis
for almost ten years and I know that Shepard's editors provide detailed customer - facing explanations of complex
citator report issues.
an international case
citator and is the first product of a 3 year Australian Research Council funded project to research into automated systems
for citation recognition.
The CLI included digests of new cases and a case
citator, but it was most notable to law librarians
for its Legal Journals Index the most complete online index of UK legal periodical materials.
The case
citators on LawSource and Quicklaw are both good, but each is designed quite differently and users are likely to develop a preference
for one over the other.
The routine conversion of judicial citations to electronic pathways out from the text and targets
for citator links into opinions has a direct bearing on optimal citation placement or so it seems to me.