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Opinions issued by the U.S. Supreme
Court present the following unique
challenges for researchers: (1) They
represent the so-called Law Of The Land
and as a result are cited thousands,
even tens of thousands of times; (2)
Unlike appellate opinions issued at the
state or Federal circuit level (which
typically resolve three-five questions)
U.S. Supreme Court opinions typically
resolve a single question; (3) by the
time nine justices finish with the
business of Joining and Dissenting, as
they microscope a single question from
multiple angles, the court regularly
issues opinions comprised of multiple
parts and tens of thousands of words in
the aggregate.
At the outset, it is important to
understand that the codified item of
information driving this Case Study is a
case citation. Legal researchers are not
trained to think of the case citation as
a codified item of information. But, it
is. At TheLaw.net Corporation, we call
this, simply, a Citation Driven Search
(CDS).
Of all possible searches, this is the one
that is most familiar to you as an
attorney. Even if
you've completely failed to bond with
technology we know intuitively that you
regularly execute the CDS; perhaps
several times a day. Every time you
validate a cite - that's a CDS. You
perform a CDS each time you check a cite
using those famous little brown books.
That's a low-tech CDS. All it does is
get you to the case. That's the best a
book can do. It's not like that anymore.
We find it fascinating that Westlaw has
been peddling computer based legal
research since 1975. Yet, if you search
Google, you will not get a hit on the
phrase "Citation
Driven Search".
That's because West still has you
thinking "book." What you should be
thinking is "computer."
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First
Click: Find The Law Of The Land
Second
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Third
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relevant language. |
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Click: Search by citation and relevant
language. |
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