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Saturday, January 30, 2010

Law - More on: Free Fastcase access on iPhone

In this ILB entry on Jan. 28, 2010, I wrote:

[The new] free Fastcase iPhone application may be worth the price of an iPhone, or an iTouch (a.k.a. mini-iPad).
The official iPhone application has now been approved by approved by Apple and is available for download in the iTunes App Store. Details here.

According to their Fastcase blog, there "are no strings attached." More:

What’s more, it’s completely free to download and use as much as you’d like. It harnesses the full power, functionality, and extensive database of the Web-based Fastcase platform that our users depend on (click here for more information about our Web-based platform). Full functionality means searching cases and statutes with Fastcase’s smarter tools and intuitive interface.

When searching cases, you can specify the jurisdiction, narrow the date range, limit the number of results, and choose to sort your results by relevance, date, short name, or by the number of times a case has been cited by others. In addition to sorting results, you’ll also be able to choose how your results appear with three options—display ‘Title’ only for quick browsing, ‘Title + First Paragraph’ to see the beginning of the case, or ‘Title + Most Relevant Paragraph’ to see the portion of the case that refers to your keywords most often.

Other features include the ability to browse statutes, pull up a list of later citing cases with Authority Check, save a case for later, view recent searches, and change a document’s font size to small, medium, or large.

If any of you try this, let me know how it works out.

Posted by Marcia Oddi on January 30, 2010 05:06 PM
Posted to General Law Related