Research

Search the way you would ask a colleague. Lawlio answers with cases, holdings, statutes and regulations, and shows what later courts did with each case.

One search

Cases, holdings, facts, statutes and regulations together

A question about a statute also finds the cases that apply it. Results are grouped by kind, and each case shows the holding or facts that matched.

Lawlio search results for apportionment of fault to a nonparty: the cases most cited by the results (Couch v. Red Roof Inns, Zaldivar v. Prickett, Alston & Bird v. Hatcher Management Holdings), then each case with its court, year, citation and the facts or holding that match.

Later treatment

What later courts did with a case

Overruled, reversed, vacated, criticized, questioned or limited: the case page names the later decision, its date, and whether the treatment reached the whole case or part of it.

Lawlio reports what it finds in the opinions it holds. It is a starting point for checking a case, not a guarantee that nothing else exists.

The standing panel of Double View Ventures, LLC v. Polite: overruled in part by Martin v. Six Flags Over Georgia II, L.P. (2017), and binding in part under Ga. Ct. App. R. 33.2.

Citing cases

Who cites it, and how

Every later case that cites a decision, sorted with negative treatment first and filterable by court. Each line shows what the citing case decided.

The cases citing Double View Ventures, negative treatment first: Martin v. Six Flags marked as overruling it, the others marked as citing it.

Statutes as they stood

The U.S. Code, the CFR and Georgia's Code, version by version

Read a section on a date, see when it was amended, and find the cases that interpret it. An opinion's citation links to the version in force when it was decided.

O.C.G.A. section 51-12-33 with the 167 cases that interpret it, each with the sentence that says how the court read the section.

Binding or physical precedent

For the Court of Appeals of Georgia, Lawlio reads the vote line under Rule 33.2 and says whether a decision is binding or physical precedent.

Check a brief

Paste a brief. Lawlio looks up each citation and Code section in it and reports what it finds, including later treatment.

Watchlist

Follow the cases that matter to you. Lawlio reports when one is later overruled, reversed or treated negatively.