PRODUCT
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USSC+ Online currently
contains
27,109 cases,
including complete coverage from
1792 to present
plus some
80
additional earlier leading cases dating as far back as 1793. It
contains the more than
600,000 pages
of text.
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Supplementation |
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The USSC+ database is
always growing! We continually add new opinions as they
are handed down by the Court.
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Cost |
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Annual subscriptions to
USSC+ Online are $39.00.
Click here
for more information.
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Software
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All you need is a connection
to the Internet and a web browser. You must be using Internet
Explorer version 5.0 or better, or Netscape Navigator 4.79 or better.
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Subject Index |
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Our editors have greatly
enhanced searching efficiency by categorizing each opinion according
to subject matter. These subjects include legal concepts (e.g., "racial
discrimination", "limitations"), general areas of activity ("education",
"health care", "publishing"), categories of individuals (attorneys,
physicians, Indians) opinion types (lead opinion, concurrence, dissent),
and the names of opinion authors.
Click here
to preview the subject index.
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Indexed full-text
searching |
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Find words or phrases
using Boolean operators, "wildcards," proximity searches, word stems,
or thesaurus operators. For most searches, retrieval is instantaneous.
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Hypertext linking |
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Besides the power of
word, phrase, and subject matter group searching, one of the greatest
advantages of doing legal research electronically, rather than with
hundreds of printed volumes, is ease of "navigation" within and between
various decisions. Embedded in the decisions reported in USSC+
Online are more than half a million hypertext links. Clicking
on a link symbol will instantly transport the user to another position
in the database, depending on the nature of the link:
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Footnote links -- activating
a footnote link brings the text of the footnote in question to the
screen.
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Intra-case links --
references in an opinion to other pages of the same decision (e.g.,
"post, p. 235") are likewise linked. Similar intra-case links are
implemented for various subdivisions of the lead opinion, as described
in the Court's Syllabus, and for the various separate concurring
and dissenting opinions of individual Justices.
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Inter-case links --
when an opinion cites another decision (e.g., "See also Roe v. Wade,
410 U.S. 113, 125 (1973)), a link is provided to the beginning of
the cited case and/or to the specific page specified in the citation.
We know of no competing product which implements hypertext links
for the latter, "loc cit.," type of citation. Rather, other products
link to the top of the cited case, and the user must thereafter
manually find the particular page cited.
After any of the above-described
links has been activated, the user may return to the original location
simply by pressing your browsers "Back" button.
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