Knowing how far to trust
citator services is important.
Rachel Gordon of the Mercer University School of Law (and formerly with a major legal research database provider) presented a poster session on her research into the potential use of user - generated content to enhance commercial legal research
citator services.
The WeCite leaderboard.In a recent post, I wrote about Casetext's new initiative to use crowdsourcing to help build out its WeCite
citator service.
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.
Legal research
service Fastcase has long had a
citator function, called Authority Check, that lets you see how a case has been cited.
«The
citator included in the Quebec - focused
service Azimut has the most difficulty of all with Collins, erroneously listing Grant alphabetically toward the middle of its list of decisions which mentioned Collins, and reporting that no decisions have treated Collins negatively.»
It also includes Canada Law Book's renowned case summary
services, such as the All - Canada Weekly Summaries and the Weekly Criminal Bulletin, as well as a note - up
citator feature.
As the use of online
services spread and as more and more cases included electronic citations, the usefulness of the «print only»
citators declined.
The Oxford Law
Citator links related content available on the
service, updates the case and provides additional bibliographic references to outside sources.
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).
Almost all of the online
services now have some form of classification system, as well as case summaries, and case and statute
citators that enable a researcher to efficiently identify cases of value, even more efficiently than their print ancestors.
Value added and secondary content — The Dominion Report
Service, the McGraw Hill Ryerson Case
Citator, and the Irwin Law «Essentials» series.
Some general online
services automatically include limited value added features such as inclusion of references in a case
citator and / or a statute
citator.