Key Features

Comprehensive database

More than 1.5 million facts about cases and activities handled by Abraham Lincoln are available in this edition.

Case details include the following:

• ♦names and functions of participants, including litigants, witnesses, attorneys, juries, court officials, and other key people in each suit;
• ♦court divisions and venues in which the case was heard through the life of the suit;
• ♦legal actions on which a suit was filed; dates on which cases began and ended; and judgments rendered.

Additional facts about the documents in a case or activity include:

• ♦the type of document;
• ♦the author, recipient, and signer;
• ♦the date it was created and/or filed with the court; and
• ♦the location of the original document.

Subject index

Cases and activities are available through a topical index that includes social, historical, and legal topics. Also included in the index are popular case “nicknames,” like the Effie Afton case, the Chicken Bone case, and the Almanac Trial.

Robust search engine

Users can search the database for cases and activities using multiple conditions and Boolean operators. The interface helps the user develop complex search statements.

Summaries of cases and nonlitigation activities

Summaries of cases and nonlitigation activities, written by legal history experts, help the user understand complex legal issues.

Document images and a full-function image viewer

Facsimile images of more than 90,000 multiple-page documents are included in the edition. Images can be enlarged, reduced, rotated, paged through, and enhanced. Images can be printed or saved to disk.

Report generator

Standard reports of pertinent information can be printed or saved to disk.