A few days ago Lexis released an iPhone app designed to do two things: get a case and Shepardize it. And guess what? It pretty much does that. There aren’t too many screens to fiddle with either. And it’s free, as long as you are a current Lexis subscriber.
When you start it up, the app defaults to a search screen, like this:
Plug in your cite (note, it’s possible that it’s having problems recognizing abbreviations for reporters, but I can’t confirm that right now), hit “Get a Document,” and this is what you get:
If you haven’t saved your login information, the app will ask you to do it and then retrieve your cite. Once the case loads, you can scroll up and down. The case is formatted just the way you’d see it on Lexis. And it loads pretty quickly too. Linking to cases, rules, statutes, etc. has been disabled though.
Notice at the top of the screen you can select a new search or to Shepardize. If you hit Shepardize, here’s what you’ll get:
Obviously from there, you can retrieve additional citing docs. Overall, it does pretty much what you’d expect it to and a lot faster than trying to find something online through Safari.
[All screencaps Copyright © 2009 LexisNexis]
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