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.
Whereas Casemaker has a comprehensive and integrated
citator on a par with Shepard's or KeyCite, Corbett asserted, Fastcase has only an automated tool that is not a real citator.
The books do alert readers to the significant difference in historical coverage between the statute
citator on Quicklaw and the statute
citator on Westlaw Canada.
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.
On LexisNexis Quicklaw, the secondary content includes the major encyclopaedias Halsburys Laws of Canada and Juris Classeur Quebec, as well as over 300 Canadian authored texts and treatises, an extensive collection of law reviews and journals, the Canada Digests and Classification System, Case and Statute
Citators, and Words and Phrases, and in - depth collections of the cases of courts and administrative tribunals and legislation.
Every legal research relies to some extent
on citators such as KeyCite in Westlaw, Shepard's in LexisNexis or Bad Law Bot in Fastcase.
Legislation research: 95 % free (mostly e-laws, legislative / parliamentary websites, and CANLII) / 5 % commercial (the odd current federal search
on Canada Statute
Citator CD - ROM)
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.
The Oxford Law
Citator links related content available
on the service, updates the case and provides additional bibliographic references to outside sources.
Oxford Law
Citator symbol provides links to related case decisions (when available in Oxford Reports
on International Law and other parts of the Encyclopedia.
How much do you rely
on editorial enhancements in cases (such as headnotes) and
citators (such as depth of treatment signals).
Canada's pathbreaking vendor - neutral legal citation standard, and CanLII's innovative RefLex
citator, are the topics of Ivan Mokanov's new post, entitled Environmentally - Friendly Citations,
on the VoxPopuLII blog, published by the Legal Information Institute at Cornell University Law School.
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.
Materials published
on PacLII are also available
on the free legal case
citator, LawCite, as well as CommonLII and WorldLII.
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.