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YinFireHare

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Looking up cases

Post by YinFireHare » Fri Nov 06, 2015 3:58 pm

How do lawyers look up previous cases? For example, all annulment cases in NC over past 10 years

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Re: Looking up cases

Post by AReasonableMan » Fri Nov 06, 2015 4:09 pm

YinFireHare wrote:How do lawyers look up previous cases? For example, all annulment cases in NC over past 10 years
You wish upon a star, smoke a little crack and see the cases one by one.

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Re: Looking up cases

Post by tomwatts » Fri Nov 06, 2015 4:52 pm

Go to a law library. There's probably one not horribly far away, and the librarians there can help you.

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Re: Looking up cases

Post by General_Tso » Fri Nov 06, 2015 4:55 pm

Google scholar

some states have free case law databases

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Re: Looking up cases

Post by AReasonableMan » Fri Nov 06, 2015 4:58 pm

In all honesty you wouldn't want to read all annulment cases. You would find the main case, and then look up the cases that cite to it. You'd mostly just make sure nobody conflicts with it.

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