How to Search Legal Opinions on Google Scholar

Google has updated their Google Scholar search system to allow users to specify individual U.S. Federal or State Courts while searching for legal opinions. This change makes searching more streamlined and offers hope that the product is being more actively developed than its relatively dormant cousin, Google Patents. Originally announced on the Google Scholar Blog, this development is presented as a curiosity, but as you’ll see in this post, can be used as an alternative to other free legal resources such as lexisONE®.

Read on as we describe how to search within Google Scholar and how this addition specifically stacks up to lexisONE.

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