Judicial Opinions Now Available in Google Scholar by Carol Ebbinghouse, Newsbreaks (Nov 19)
Favourable review of the addition for full-text legal opinions from U.S. Federal and State District, Appellate, and Supreme courts to Google Scholar.
The good: "What Google offers is the thoughtful scholarship of appellate justices, crafting an explanation of the law, and how this particular law will be applied to a particular set of facts. There are about 80 years of U.S. federal case law (including tax and bankruptcy courts) and more than 50 years of state case law."
The not-so-good: "These files do not cover the time dating from the beginning of our country, nor to the beginnings of the individual states. There are no hyperlinks to statutes, codes, regulations, administrative opinions, or anything else quoted or referred to in the text of the opinions. Finally, there is no citator service to verify that a particular opinion has not been overruled or vacated, distinguished, or otherwise declared of dubious value."
Posted by Gwen at November 23, 2009 04:00 PM