Choosing a research tool
Exam season is getting closer and the cases keep piling up. You need something that helps you understand the law, not just find it. Here is what to look for, what each kind of tool is good for, and where LexCases fits beside them.
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Before comparing anything, decide what the tool is for. For a student it is learning the law, which asks different things of a tool than practising it does.
You need to know why a case matters, not only what it says. A tool that hands you a conclusion has done the part you are meant to learn.
An invented citation is worse than none. Whatever you use, every case it gives you should be checkable against its source.
How did the law get here, and what changed along the way? That is what an examiner is testing, and what a list of cases leaves out.
Free to start, and cheap enough to keep, because the course runs all year.
Week one to exam day, not a three-day sprint before the paper.
Most students end up using more than one. Each kind is good at something different, and none of them is the whole job.
The full record: judgments, reports, journals and commentary, usually free through your library. Use them to open the full judgment and to confirm every case you rely on.
Good for putting a concept you half understand into plainer words. Check every case it names against the source before it goes near an essay.
Good for condensing judgments and readings you already have. It works from what you give it, so finding the right cases is still your job.
Quick orientation before a tutorial. But writing the brief yourself is where the learning happens, so treat someone else's as a starting point.
LexCases is a study tool, built by a law student for learning the law. It sits beside your library's databases, not in place of them: it helps you find your way in and understand what you find.
Describe the problem question in plain English. No case name or citation needed, and the cases come back ranked by how well each one fits.
Interactive timelines show how a doctrine was built, case by case: what each decision changed, and what came after.
Anything that cannot be confirmed is dropped, so you get a shorter list rather than an invented one. The check is itself an AI process, so you still open the source before you cite.
Save cases to your modules and write your own notes. The AI never writes them for you, and the Question Advisor guides your approach without writing the answer.
The same effort and the same honesty for every jurisdiction. Where the public record is thin, the result is shorter and says so.
Each case carries an authority score out of 100, with the formula shown in the open. A supporting signal, never the reason to pick a case on its own.
See how it worksWant the method behind it? Read how to study law cases effectively.
One set of plans for every student, in every jurisdiction.
20 tokens a week. A search costs 3 and returns 5 cases, and 2 searches are always kept back for you. Your last 50 searches stay in your library.
€18.99 a month with a 7 -day free trial, or €189.99 a year. Cancel anytime. Every statute stays readable on every plan: the law itself is never behind Pro.
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LexCases is not a faceless company. It is built by a law student who sat through the same reading lists, and it is shaped by the students who use it.
If something is missing, or something reads wrong, say so. That is how the tool gets better. Tell us what you need.
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