Fastcase vs OpenJurist

Fastcase is an online legal research system providing access to cases, statutes, regulations, court rules, and bar publications. Its research tools include the Interactive Timeline and Authority Check, while Bad Law Bot uses citation analysis to flag negative treatment when it recognizes it. Fastcase says its libraries are updated daily, with most appellate cases added 24 to 48 hours after release by a court. Free mobile applications provide access to the research database, and more than 80 national, state, and county bar associations offer the service as a free member benefit. The pricing page lists a free option and a daylong premium trial with unlimited printing. Appellate costs $65 a month; Premium costs $95 a month. A Clio integration lets attorneys track research time with Clio's timer and save research entries to matters. The service lists coverage across federal courts, all 50 states, and the District of Columbia, and describes solutions for small and solo firms as well as larger organizations.

OpenJurist is a free legal-research portal covering United States federal, state and tribal law, including the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and U.S. territories. Its collection includes court opinions, the U.S. Code, a multi-source legal dictionary, judges, courts, law schools, founding documents and 304 curated landmark decisions. Case pages provide citation profiles, citation activity over time, appellate history and passages later courts relied on. A free citation checker can verify whether a case exists, remains good law and contains a quoted passage. Other tools present circuit splits by issue, judge records, case status and comparisons between state statutes and federal law. OpenJurist says quotations are checked against source opinions and machine-derived analysis is labeled with links to its methodology. Developers can retrieve JSON through a read-only API for opinions, statutes, dictionary entries, judges, courts and search; low-volume use is free, with no numeric request limit stated. The site can be read without an account. OpenJurist says it is a public research resource, not legal advice, and that its content is not guaranteed to be accurate, complete or adequate.