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Google Scholar Adds Free Access to Federal and State Legal Opinions

By Cleveland Law Library

Better late than never, here is our trumpet blast on the newest Google product that will allow free access to full text legal opinions from U.S. federal and state district, appellate and supreme courts using Google Scholar.  It appears that results from all 50 states are available back to 1950, and it boasts an interesting feature that shows how the case was cited. The "How cited" tab appears to try and mimic a Shepard's or Keycite report listing other cases and law reviews that mention or quote the case at issue. Typical advanced Google search techniques still work, and you can search by case name or legal topic. At inception, Google Scholar was a way to find scholarly literature, but not necessarily legal articles. That has all changed becasue Google Scholar also includes bibliographic information from about 50% of Heinonline's current journals. Click here to read Google's summary of this new product.

Full post as published by Cleveland Law Library Weblog on November 25, 2009 (boomark / email).