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For Online Legal Research, the following are essential features, and you should therefore expect to see a check in every box in this section.
AI legal assistants can help you identify relevant cases and statutes, and may even help you draft your brief.
Can you search by entering a question in normal language rather than keywords or Boolean connectors and phrases?
With Boolean operators like AND, OR, and more, you can precisely target your search query.
A citation checker helps you identify whether a case or statute has been overruled, modified, or reversed or repealed.
Can you restrict your search to certain parts or features of cases and statutes, like the date, judge, or jurisdiction?
Research history makes it easier to find the results of previous searches or see if the law has changed with new results.
Organize your research history into folders.
Download cases and statutes as a formatted PDF or Word document.
When you run a search, get suggestions for additional searches to run or material you should look at.
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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Artificial Intelligence. 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 documents (complaints, briefs, and memos) that you upload to CARA. After uploading, 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.
Citator Service. Casetext’s citator service, SmartCite, is also informed by its AI assistant, CARA. Like most other citators, it will indicate bad law, good law, and cases that may be problematic. However, SmartCite will also indicate when cases rely on opinions that have been subsequently overruled.
Secondary Sources. Casetext, unfortunately, does not have much in the way of Secondary Sources. Unlike LexisNexis or WestLaw, it is mainly a Case Law, Statute, and Rules resource. You won’t find much proprietary resources, treatises, or journal articles.
Shayla D.
“They don't discriminate against alleged "non-lawyers"”
September 13, 2019 5:42 AM
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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