How to search
Type words to find documents that hold all of them. The connectors lawyers know from Westlaw and Lexis, and the field prefixes below, mean the same thing whichever of UpLaw's two search engines answers.
Connectors
a space, AND, &: Both words (negligence AND hospital). OR, |: Either word (hospital OR clinic). NOT, -: Without the word ("fair use" NOT parody). ( ): Group words (negligence (railroad OR automobile)). " ": This exact phrase ("actual malice"). word*: Words that start this way (three letters or more) (tortf*). /n, w/n: Within n words, either order (malice /15 disregard). pre/n: Within n words, first word first (malice pre/15 disregard). /s, /p: Read as /25 and /75 for now (same sentence, same paragraph) (parody /s satire).
Field prefixes
title: Words in the title (title:miranda). court: Opinions of a court, by name or CourtListener id (court:"ninth circuit" qualified immunity). judge: Opinions whose judge field is exactly this name (judge:cardozo negligence). party: Opinions whose case name holds the party (party:"long island railroad"). docket: Opinions with this docket number (docket:1:21-cv-01234). cite: The document with this citation (cite:410 U.S. 113).
Good to know
AND, OR and NOT count only in capitals. A lower-case "or" is searched as a word. Connectors bind tightest, then NOT, then AND, then OR: a b OR c d means (a AND b) OR (c AND d). /s and /p need sentence and paragraph boundaries in the index, which UpLaw does not record yet; until then they mean within 25 and within 75 words. When the main search engine is unavailable, proximity wider than 75 words is read as AND, and judge: or docket: with a star is left out. The results page says so when it happens. A query that cannot be read as written is searched as words, never refused. The line under the search box shows how it was read.