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Good way to get more comprehensive results, but how would the wexis queries be funded?


Good question. Right now, Westlaw charges something like $100 per search in ALLCASES, which is their database of all federal and state court opinions ever written. Just to retrieve a single document by citation is something like $10.

The general trick is to try to craft a very broad 'initial' search that will encapsulate all of your results; you can create sub-searches within that set of retrieved documents (limited to at most around 3,000) at no additional cost.


Well, you're not talking ALLCASES, you're looking at academic commentary. Maybe better to pursue a solution that uses HeinOnline?




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