- PriceFree
- CategoryReference
- First releasedJanuary 29, 2010
- Versions1 archived
- Installable1 of 1
- AvailabilityStill on the App Store
- SellerFastcase
- Bundle IDcom.fastcase.Fastcase
RequirementsCompatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 3.0 or later.
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Report an issueFastcase for the iPhone/iPad is a free legal research application, putting the American law library in the palm of your hand. Fastcase contains cases and statutes from all 50 states and from the federal government. You can search by citation, keyword (in Boolean or natural language), or browse statute collections.
FEATURES:
- Free, searchable library of American cases and statutes - Keyword (Boolean), natural language, and citation search - Browse or search statutes - Most relevant results first - Customizable, sortable search results - Search results automatically display number of citing cases - Jump right to most relevant paragraph of any case or statute - Integrated research history - Save favorite documents for use later - Updated daily
Fastcase for the iPhone has won the prestigious American Association of Law Libraries New Product of the Year Award, and the iPad app includes great new features that take advantage of the larger screen area. Now you can view search results in a side panel while reading a document, enjoy portrait or landscape views, and see multiple levels of statute outline views.
Fastcase for the iPhone/iPad also uses smart search technology from Fastcase’s fully-featured Web-based legal research application, which allows you to sort the most relevant results to the top of the list, customize and re-sort search results, and integrate citation analysis tools right into the results list.
This application is free, but you’ll need to register an account so that you can save favorites and your own customized search history. There are tons of customizable features, so the more you use the Fastcase app, the better it fits you!
Fastcase’s desktop application (www.fastcase.com) is widely considered the smartest alternative for legal research – allowing visual mapping of search results, dual-column printing, and more complete citation analysis and sorting tools. Fastcase was founded in 1999 and has hundreds of thousands of subscribers from around the world.
Fastcase for the iPhone/iPad is the world’s largest free mobile law library. Happy searching!
WHAT CRITICS ARE SAYING:
"The short version of my review is this: I was impressed. The app is easy to use and produces lightning-fast results. . . . For legal research on the go, at any time, and for zero cost, this is a must-have for any lawyer with an iPhone." - Bob Ambrogi, Law.com
"The Fastcase iPhone app is an extremely solid app which probably won't be dethroned as the king of mobile legal research anytime soon." - Joshua Auriemma, LegalGeekery.com
"The largest free law library available on the iPhone. . . . This is a surprisingly robust legal research tool that will allow its users to find cases and statutes wherever they are, whenever they want, all for free." - Bob Ambrogi
"Will it be long before students are required to purchase iPhones for law school in addition to, or instead of, laptops?" - James B. Levy, Legal Writing Professor Blog
"The Legal Universe At Your Fingertips, For Free!" - Brad Bogan, Fifth Circuit Blog
2010 Winner, New Product of the Year Award, American Association of Law Libraries
Ratings Over Time
sampled from 7 archived captures| Date | Version | Rating | Ratings | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 16, 2010 | 1.01 | — | 396 | Free |
| April 11, 2011 | 2.1 | — | 1,601 | Free |
| March 23, 2012 | — | — | 1,672 | Free |
| May 2, 2013 | — | — | 1,704 | Free |
From archived App Store listing data, captured by the Wayback Machine.
Archived Reviews
8 of 25My sympathies to Fastcase associates and affiliates.
Absolutely worthless. Just go to the website through your browser, this app never works and will only lead to frustration. They should remove it from the App Store, its that bad.
This app used to works OK. Not every search op ration results in XML parsing errors. It is free for our state and that used to mean something. Now it feels like our state is irrelevant to FastCase.
THE APP WAS WORKING GREAT AND NOW FOR EVERY SEARCH ENTRY I GET AN ERROR MESSAGE. VERY ANNOYING MUST FIX ASAP
I like the computer PC version and am a subscriber. This app is awful with constant bugs and searches miss cases or time out to error. I actually glanced at it today and saw it was last updated 4 years ago. That is piss poor. Hey FastCase...... get rid of your app. You aren’t at all committed to it and it’s about to make us get rid of your other product
Hasn’t been updated in 3 YEARS! Crashes roughly every 20 seconds on iPhone X. Requires a new login after every crash. Who has patience to tolerate that? I deleted it almost immediately.
I’ve been practicing for awhile now, and it’s entirely beyond me why the mobile app gives back an error every time I search anything more than one word at a time. Absolutely useless for legal research as of 1/26/2019 by my experience...would gladly be proven wrong, but any app that claims to be legal research and can't return a search for “protection order”, “murder” or “theft” at the state level kinda fails hard....
Same as other users.
Period reviews recovered from Apple's customer-review feeds via the Wayback Machine.