Casemaker Tip of the Month: Check out Casecheck

Did you know that the casecheck function allows Casemaker users to determine validity of case law?

Casemaker's exclusive casecheck feature allows legal professionals to know whether the case they may wish to cite has been cited by a later court.

To access casecheck, simply look on the right-hand side of the screen of the case you are viewing. If there are no hyperlinks underneath the casecheck logo, it means that the case has not been cited in a later-issued published opinion. If there are hyperlinks, the user can click on the link to jump to the citation and see how the later opinion treated the original case. By reading the text surrounding the case citation, the user can quickly determine later treatment.

Citators can be good, but they may or may not address the finer point that a user would need to have in order to accurately determine the status of a case. Further, there is no guarantee that the citator determination was actually written by a lawyer. In some instances, non-graduate law students may have been assigned to write the citator determination. By allowing Casemaker users to view the specific area of the later case, legal professionals can read the decision and make their own determination of the value of the case in question. We feel that although it may be slightly more time-consuming, Casemaker users are the best judge of the applicability of a ruling to their case.

Casemaker is in the business of providing legal professionals with what they need to win and that's why the Alabama State Bar is pleased to offer this free member benefit!

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