Legal Research Tool That Gives You Case Summaries and the Holding
A case is only useful once you know what it held. Cases returns each precedent as a headnote card with a plain-English summary and the holding, so you understand how the court ruled without reading the whole opinion first.
How courts have ruled
Sample results, illustrative only. Informational research, not legal advice. Verify every citation.
In short
A legal research tool should not just hand you a list of case names, it should tell you what each case actually decided. Cases is a legal research tool that returns every result as a headnote card carrying a plain-English summary of what the case was about and the holding, the point the court actually decided, so you see how it ruled at a glance. That means you can triage a page of precedents in the time it used to take to skim a single opinion, then open only the cases that matter to your issue. The summary orients you and the holding tells you whether the case helps or hurts your position. Because the point of the case is on the card, you read the relevant precedents faster and read fewer that turn out to be off-point. Cases is informational research, not legal advice, and it shows you the citation so you always verify the case in the official reporter before you rely on it.
What you get
Summaries and holdings, built for attorneys, paralegals, and law students
Plain-English summaries
Each case is summarized in plain English so you know what it was about without wading through the full opinion to find out.
The holding, up front
The holding, what the court actually decided, is surfaced on the card, so you see how it ruled before you commit time to reading it.
Triage a page fast
Because the summary and holding are on every card, you can scan a page of precedents and open only the ones that are on-point.
Still your judgment
Summaries and holdings are a starting point you verify against the opinion itself. Informational research, not legal advice.
How it works
From a plain-English question to a cited case in four steps
Ask your question
Search in plain English for the issue you are researching.
Get headnote cards
Cases returns the on-point precedents as cards, each with a summary and the holding.
Scan the holdings
Read the holding on each card to see which cases help, hurt, or do not apply.
Open and verify
Open the full opinion for the cases that matter and confirm the citation in the official reporter.
Find the right case in minutes
Ask your question in plain English and get on-point precedents with summaries, holdings, and citations you can check in the official reporter. Informational research, not legal advice.