AltLaw Free Federal Appellate Opinion Search Engine

AltLaw "is a small effort to to make the common law a bit more common." It provides the first free, full-text searchable database of Supreme Court and Federal Appellate case reports, with

• Full text search of the last decade or so of federal appellate and Supreme Court opinions.
• Advanced search options (proximity searching, Boolean, concentration, wildcards, etc.)
• Fast and free
• Updated daily (not yet, work in progress)

AltLaw is a joint project of Columbia Law School’s Program on Law and Technology, and the Silicon Flatirons Program at the University of Colorado Law School. AltLaw was written by Stuart Sierra and Paul Ohm, with help from Luis Villa, and produced by Tim Wu.