HeinOnline now includes case law powered by Fastcase

HeinOnline now includes federal and state case law powered by Fastcase. When viewing a document, such as a law review article, in HeinOnline, the references now link to the cases cited. When an article cites a case, the case citation will be highlighted in blue, with the link going to full text of the case in either HeinOnline or Fastcase. When you link to the case powered by Fastcase, you will stay inside HeinOnline. Thus, you will not need to adjust any authentications or proxy settings. Where HeinOnline provides the exact page replications of the original document, Fastcase provides a reformatted, plain text version.

The federal case coverage includes: Judicial opinions of the Supreme Court (1754–present), Federal Circuits (1924 present), Board of Tax Appeals (vols. 1–47), Tax Court Memorandum Decisions (vols. 1–59), U.S. Customs Court (vols. 1-70), Board of Immigration Appeals (1996–present), Federal District Courts (1924–present), Federal Bankruptcy Courts (1 B.R. 1–present). The state case law covers all fifty states, with nearly half of the states dating back to the 1800s. Coverage for the remaining states dates back to approximately 1950.

 

 

Users will also see a Fastcase tab when they log in to HeinOnline, which can be used to retrieve an opinion using the Bluebook citation. In addition, HeinOnline also provides a Direct Citation option which will allow you to type in the volume, use a drop-down menu for the case abbreviation and enter the page number to find your citation. Both options will retrieve the full text of the case in Fastcase’s HTML format.