Legal Research

Legal Cite Saver for Google Scholar

By David

For those of you that don?t already know it there are a lot of good free legal search engines for cases on the internet. One of them, Google Scholar has really been working on their legal database (See November 19th, 2009 post) to make it a good place to do free basic legal research. Google scholar cases (http://scholar.google.com) contains U.S. Supreme Court cases go back to 1791, U.S. District Court decisions go back to at least 1923, and state supreme court and appellate court decisions go to 1950.  

Now, an independent company has made a cite function available CiteStack (http://www.citestack.com/) is an add-on to Google Chrome browser. Its website touts its ability to highlight and save cites as you read, organize cites by projects, and generate reports of cites and annotation in a project file for export.   It looks interesting but it is not free.  However, it is much cheaper than the alternative. It costs $69.00 per year. It may be a viable tool for cheaper legal research porjects if it usable for your work environment. (Post-David)

Full post as published by Cocky Law Blawg on September 07, 2010 (boomark / email).