Posted on November 30, 2009 by Tami Cowden

Google adds legal opinion search engine

Google now offers a search engine containing legal opinions.  To get to the search engine, click on Google Scholar and select "legal opinions and journals."  

The database includes U.S. Supreme Court decision dating back to 1791; federal appellate, district, tax and bankruptcy court opinions from 1923 onward, and every state court decision since 1950.  Searches are available based on citation, keyword and topic.   Full text of opinions are accessible, and there are even links to other opinions where the cases are cited. 

I don't think I'll be giving up my access to West or Lexis based on this free service,  but it will come in handy for short searches and for those times when I don't have passwords with me.  

I haven't had much luck with it for finding full texts of articles, though.

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