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Looking up cases
Posted: Fri Nov 06, 2015 3:58 pm
by YinFireHare
How do lawyers look up previous cases? For example, all annulment cases in NC over past 10 years
Re: Looking up cases
Posted: Fri Nov 06, 2015 4:09 pm
by AReasonableMan
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.
Re: Looking up cases
Posted: Fri Nov 06, 2015 4:52 pm
by tomwatts
Go to a law library. There's probably one not horribly far away, and the librarians there can help you.
Re: Looking up cases
Posted: Fri Nov 06, 2015 4:55 pm
by General_Tso
Google scholar
some states have free case law databases
Re: Looking up cases
Posted: Fri Nov 06, 2015 4:58 pm
by AReasonableMan
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.