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Promising New Legal Search Engine

PreCYdent is a new legal research search engine that seems to have much promise.  You can read about it here.  It appears to "rank" cases much in the way Google ranks web sites.  For example, typing in "qualified immunity" in PreCYdent doesn't just give you a random list of cases.  It gives you the leading cases.  Saucier v. Katz, for example, is the leading modern day case on qualified immunity.  It's also the first result. If you type in "good faith exception to the exclusionary rule," the second result is United States v. Leon, which is the case that gave birth to the good faith exception. It's not perfect, of course.  For example, the second result for "excessive force" is Hope v...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime & Federalism on January 25, 2008 (boomark / email).