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Searching court opinions means finding the published decisions of federal and state courts that address your legal issue. Casesearch lets you search those opinions in plain English, returns the most relevant decisions with their full citation, court, and year, summarizes each holding in plain language, and shows a treatment signal so you know whether the opinion still stands.
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Every result gives you a real citation, a plain-language holding, and a still-good-law signal you can verify.
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Results are ordered by how closely the opinion matches the issue you asked about, not just keyword overlap.
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A short plain-language summary tells you what the court decided and why it matters to your question.
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See followed, questioned, or overruled signals before you spend time reading the full opinion.
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