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Fastcase Overview

Fastcase Overview. Presenter: Julie Tedjeske, J.D., M.L.S., M.S.I.S. Electronic Resources and Instructional Services Librarian Duquesne Center for Legal Information tedjeskej@duq.edu. Scope of Coverage Information:. www.fastcase.com/coverage. Searching from the Homepage in Fastcase 6.

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Fastcase Overview

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  1. FastcaseOverview Presenter: Julie Tedjeske, J.D., M.L.S., M.S.I.S. Electronic Resources and Instructional Services Librarian Duquesne Center for Legal Information tedjeskej@duq.edu

  2. Scope of Coverage Information: www.fastcase.com/coverage

  3. Searching from the Homepage in Fastcase 6 Search Bar Defaults to Most Recently Searched Jurisdiction Advanced Search Option for Cases Select a Library to Search if You Are Not Looking for Caselaw

  4. Fastcase 6: Advanced Search The Advanced Search Screen Allows for Boolean, Natural Language, and Citation Searching The Search Tips Provide Information on How to Craft a Boolean Search You Can Limit the Search Results to One Jurisdiction or a Group of Jurisdictions

  5. Fastcase 6 Advanced Search:Search By Citation Search by Citation is Available on the Advanced Search Screen; Use Commas to Pull Up Multiple Citations

  6. Search Results in Fastcase 6 Links To Potentially Relevant Law Review Articles From HeinOnline Are Provided You Can Modify Your Search Results You Can Add Documents to a Print Queue Authority Check Provides Information About How Often a Case is Cited by Other Cases in Your Search Results as Well As How Often a Case is Cited in the Database

  7. Toggle From Fastcase 6 to Fastcase7 Toggle to Fastcase 7 (In Beta)

  8. Toggle From Fastcase 7 to Fastcase 6 Toggle Back to Fastcase 6

  9. Searching from the Homepage in Fastcase 7 The Main Search Bar Advanced Search Options Outline View of Resources by Jurisdiction

  10. Advanced Search Page in Fastcase 7 Your Search Appears in the Search Bar at the Top of the Screen First You Type In Your Terms; Then You Can Limit the Scope This Guide Helps You Craft a Search Just Like in Fastcase 6, There is Information on How to Craft a Search

  11. Fastcase 7 Advanced Search:Limiting the Scope of the Search After You Have Crafted a Search, You Can Limit the Search by Jurisdiction You Can Also Limit to Certain Types of Secondary Sources Graphical View of Jurisdictions

  12. Fastcase 7 Advanced Search:Customize Your Search This Allows the User to Design His or Her Own Relevancy Algorithm These Are The Factors Used to Determine Relevancy Rankings

  13. Search Results in Fastcase 7 Search Results Modify Search Results

  14. Advanced Features: Forecite in Fastcase 6 Forecite Uses an Algorithm to Find Highly-Cited Cases That May Be Relevant to Your Search But That Do Not Include All of Your Search Terms Click Here to See Forecite Results

  15. Advanced Features:Forecite in Fastcase 7 Forecite in Fastcase 7

  16. Advanced Features: Interactive Timeline for Search Results The Inner Circle Shows How Often the Case is Cited in Your Search Results; the Gray Area Shows How Often It is Cited in Fastcase The Default Sort is by Relevance; You Can Change the Sort to Jurisdiction Orange is for Forecite Cases; Yellow is For Cases in Your Search Results

  17. Advanced Features: Interactive Timeline for Individual Case Results The Base Case Cases That Your Case Cites Cases That Cite to the Base Case

  18. Advanced Features: Authority Check in Fastcase 6 Authority Check is at the Top of the Screen An Example of an Authority Check Report

  19. Advanced Features: Authority Check in Fastcase 7 Citing Authorities Are Organized by Jurisdiction The Bad Law Bot Provides Information on Negative Treatment

  20. Limited Citator: Bad Law Bot Bad Law Bot Red Flag

  21. Limited Citator: Bad Law Bot An Example of an Authority Check Report with a Red Flag

  22. Limited Citator: Bad Law Bot CAVEAT/REMINDER: Fastcase’s Authority Check (featuring the Bad Law Bot) may identify cases that have been reversed or overturned, but it relies on computer algorithms to do so. In other words, the absence of a red flag in Fastcase does not necessarily mean that a case is still good law. You should still use a citator such as Shepard’s or Keycite.

  23. Secondary Sources Search in Fastcase 6 Search Results

  24. Secondary Sources Search in Fastcase 6 (Outline View) Outline View of Secondary Sources

  25. Secondary Sources: HeinOnline A PDF Version of an Article From HeinOnline

  26. Secondary Sources: Lexblog(1 of 2) Sample Text From the Blog

  27. Secondary Sources: Lexblog(2 of 2) Original Source You Can Go To the Original Source

  28. Summary • Fastcase contains primary law as well as some secondary sources. The Loislaw Treatises are a notable group of secondary resources that are available in Fastcase. • The current version of Fastcase is Fastcase 6; ACLL users can also use Fastcase 7, which is in beta. • Some advanced features of Fastcase include the following: (1) Forecite; (2) the Interactive Timeline for individual cases and for searches; and (3) the integration with HeinOnline and LexBlog. • Fastcase provides Authority Check, which lists cases that cite to an underlying case, and the Bad Law Bot, which identifies cases that may be reversed. However, Fastcase does not have a robust citator such as KeyCite or Shepard’s.

  29. Thank you!

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