Casemaker

• Jurisdiction: United States,Federal,Georgia
• Citation: Vol. 14 No. 5 Pg. 0056
• Pages: 0056
• Publication year: 2009

Casemaker No. Vol. 14, No. 5, Pg. 56 Georgia Bar Journal February, 2009

Getting the Most Out of Casemaker:

Multi-State Searches

by Kimberly White

In the December 2008 Casemaker article, you learned about the "Result Order" feature which allows you to determine how your opinions will be listed. We continue to show you all of the benefits of Casemaker's functionality and introduce you to MultiState searches. Unlike other online legal research databases, there are no additional fees charged to research another state's case law. However, please be mindful that every state's library menu is not set up the same way. Also, please be sure to click the currency icon that is available at the top of each state's library menu to see how current the cases are in each state's database.

Conducting Multi-State Searches

In order to access the multi-state database, click the "Full Library Menu" icon located in the Casemaker Tool Bar (see fig. 1). From the "Full Library Menu" you can gain access to the Federal Library, libraries for all 50 states and the Multi-State Searches. You would then click on the "Multi-State Searches" option, which will give you access to the appropriate library menu (see fig. 2).

In the "Multi-State Searches" library you can choose to research State Court Opinions or State Ethics Opinions. Then you would click search next to either State Court or State Ethics Opinions. From here you see that you have the ability to find case law in any state just by clicking the box adjacent to whichever state you desire to research (see fig. 3).

When conducting a search in the "Multi-State Searches" area, you would perform a search using the same "Full Document Search Query" search functions that you would use in the state of Georgia case law search area. If you wish to search all 50 states simultaneously, click on the "Select All" button (see fig. 4). You will know you have selected this option properly because check marks will be visible in the boxes adjacent to all 50 states. You would "Deselect All" states in...