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Effective Strategies for Finding Relevant Legal Cases

Navigating legal research can be challenging, especially when searching for specific cases based on various criteria like case name, citation, legal topics, or factual situations. This guide offers practical strategies to efficiently locate relevant cases using resources like Low Cost, Fastcase, Casemaker, Google Scholar, and others. Learn to leverage annotated statutes, ALR, and legal encyclopedias, and discover how to use headnotes in Lexis and Westlaw to find similar cases. Through examples like Defenders of Wildlife v. Tuggle, understand how to refine your search techniques for better results.

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Effective Strategies for Finding Relevant Legal Cases

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  1. A Day at the Cases

  2. The usual cases • But they may not be the usual cases. Can you quickly and efficiently find a case with: • Just a case name? (or even worse, just one party) • Only a citation? • An emphasis on a specific legal topic? • A specific factual situation? • Finding specific cases that apply to your situation can be tricky – especially if you want something special • Date • Written by a certain judge • Precedential cases

  3. Where the cases are • Other places - • Remember these from Low Cost? • Fastcase • Casemaker • Google Scholar • Some other options • Annotated statutes • ALR • Legal Encyclopedia

  4. A few good strategies • Headnotes • In both Lexis and Westlaw, once you find a case, you can use the headnotes to find other cases that are similar. • Let’s look at Defenders of Wildlife v. Tuggle, 607 F. Supp. 2d 1095 (D. Ariz. 2009). If a client wants to find out about wolves, how would we find more cases in that area? • Westlaw first, then Lexis:

  5. A few good strategies (cont)

  6. A few good strategies (cont)

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