Furthermore, AI techniques can help build better
citators with limited human intervention, and links between decisions can be tagged to reflect the treatment of cited decisions.
* The Bloomberg Law Digest, with a topical index * Bloomberg BCite,
a citator with case extracts and citation composites * Bloomberg Points of Law, with unique legal principles extracted by in - house legal experts * A powerful docket search, with both keyword and fielded search capabilities, across all federal courts, many U.S. State and international courts and breaking complaints.
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.
With respect to both cases, every
citator result that affected the validity of the cases (negative citing references) appeared in all
citators, including Google Scholar, towards the top of the results.
It contains the full text of just about every case ever decided, has a really good search engine, and has official pagination, internal linking to the full text of every cited case, a built in Shepard's like
citator, which,
with one click, will pull up every case that has cited the case you are viewing.
In connection
with these two particular cases, the ordering of results were substantially similar in all
citators.
While we agree
with Mr. Phillips that human assessment is essential to making
citators, we'd like to take advantage of your post to clarify one of his assertions regarding SOQUIJ's Citateur.
«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.»
The supplements consist primarily of references to recent cases and legislative developments, which can be obtained
with greater currency by an effective online search or intelligent use of a well - designed online
citator.
Also,
with electronic databases, we can afford to refer to only one decision and other decisions made in the same dispute are often within reach of our reader through
citators.
«The bar was concerned that their members were not getting the advantage of a
citator and they were impressed
with ours.»
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.
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.
Many «errors» in case and statute
citators originate
with unclear references in the judgment itself.
In a brief phone conversation
with Walters last night, he described this as the «first step» in making Fastcase's
citator more comparable to Shepard's and KeyCite.
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.
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.
Consequently, the work of the Free Law movement can not stop
with making opinions freely available: a free and robust
citator is also needed.