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Casetext empowers lawyers with advanced legal research backed by cutting edge technology.

Casetext Rating:
4.9/5

Features

  • Customer Experience & Support - 9/10
    9/10
  • Pricing & Value - 9/10
    9/10
  • Innovation & Future-Proofing - 10/10
    10/10
Comments Rating 5 (1 review)
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Rating Breakdown

Our Rating: 4.7/5

Our rating is based on our subjective judgment. Use our resources—including our rating and community ratings and reviews—to find the best fit for your firm.

Community Rating: 5/5 (based on 1 rating)

The community rating is based on the average of the community reviews below.

Composite Rating: 4.9/5

The composite rating is a weighted average of our rating and the community ratings below.

Who Casetext is For

Honestly, Casetext is an excellent option for everyone from solos to larger law firms. Since its basic product is free to use, why not try it out to see if it’s a good fit for you? If you want to give the premium features or CARA a test run, sign up for a 14-day free trial. While Casetext may not offer comprehensive secondary source databases on par with its bigger competitors, it’s still a great service worth spending your time to explore.

Casetext Features

Website
casetext.com
Starting Cost
$65/user/month
Free Trial
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Apps
  • Web
Sources
US State Cases
All 50 States
US State Statutes
All 50 States
US Cases
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US Statutes
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Dockets
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Secondary Sources
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News Coverage
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Artificial Intelligence (AI)
AI legal assistants can help you identify relevant cases and statutes, and may even help you draft your brief.
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Natural Language Search
Can you search by entering a question in normal language rather than keywords or Boolean connectors and phrases?
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Boolean Search
With Boolean operators like AND, OR, and more, you can precisely target your search query.
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Case Summaries
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Citation Checking
A citation checker helps you identify whether a case or statute has been overruled, modified, or reversed or repealed.
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Filter Search
Can you restrict your search to certain parts or features of cases and statutes, like the date, judge, or jurisdiction?
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Research History
Research history makes it easier to find the results of previous searches or see if the law has changed with new results.
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Research Folders
Organize your research history into folders.
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PDF/Word Downloads
Download cases and statutes as a formatted PDF or Word document.
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Suggestions
When you run a search, get suggestions for additional searches to run or material you should look at.
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Alerts
Flag key cases so that you get an email notification if it is cited in a new case, statute, or secondary source.
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Software Integrations
  • Clio
  • Docketbird
  • FileVine
  • Hire an Esquire
Open API
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Things You Might Want to Know

Meet CARA. The Case Analysis Research Assistant, or CARA, is Casetext’s AI-backed legal research tool that helps you discover relevant cases and briefs based on complaints, briefs, and memos that you upload to CARA. After you upload your brief, CARA will analyze the brief and make all subsequent research more intelligent, instantly returning relevant cases that are on the same facts, legal issues, jurisdiction, and motion at issue. It will also surface relevant statutes, articles, and briefs filed by other attorneys on the same topic. This means that you don’t have to doubt if you missed anything after you already spent countless hours on research.

Quick search. Many legal research databases feel cumbersome with long page-load times. With Casetext’s underlying code, results feel more like a Google search, showing up almost instantaneously and feeling relevant to your work, which saves you time and energy.

Unique proprietary databases. Casetext features unique proprietary databases. For example, the “black letter law” database is perfect for unearthing that one perfect snippet that will drive your argument home.

Page edited by the Lawyerist editorial team. Last updated November 27th, 2019.

1 Casetext Community Review

  1. Avatar Shayla D. says:
    September 13, 2019 at 5:42 am

    They don't discriminate against alleged "non-lawyers"

    Out of all of these “exclusive” AI sites, CaseText is the only one that understands that you don’t have to have a bar card to be a lawyer. In fact, the SCOTUS has affirmed this fact multiple times. Other company’s just don’t get that. With the rise of pro se litigants these days, one would think that SOMEONE would catch on, but no….

    I wish CaseText had as robust tools as Westlaw, but Westlaw is an ABSOLUTE joke.

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