| Locating Opinions Written by a
Specific Jurist Often researchers need to locate decisions
written by a specific judge. To conduct this type of
search, you must use either WESTLAW or LEXIS. This
feature is not yet available via the Internet. Following
are examples of how to formulate searches to locate this
material.
Select your
database, and then you can use any of the following field
identifiers to locate decisions:
| |
Westlaw
Field Identifier |
Lexis
Field Identifier |
| Concurring |
CON (name) |
Concur (name) or Concurby (name) |
| Dissenting |
DIS (name) |
Dissent (name) or Dissentby (name) |
| Judge |
JU (name) |
Decision (name) or Judges (name)
or Written by(name) |
| Lead |
LE (name) |
N/A |
| Opinions |
OP (name) |
Opinions (name) or Opinionby (name)
or Opinions (name) |
| Panel |
PA (name) |
N/A |
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