Incidentally, I've become helplessly dependent on Google Scholar for looking up legal opinions. Despite the very simple interface and relative lack of advanced functionality, it just works so speedily and consistently. San Francisco has a fantastic free law library where I can use Lexis & Westlaw, but the experience is unpleasant, to say the least.
One nitpick I do have with Scholar, though, is that there's no easy way to correct errors - for example, there's a case I've looked at several times where the first party's name is misspelled in the title, so if I'm inspired to look it up again for some reason my first attempt fails until I remember to use multiple search terms.
Incidentally, I've become helplessly dependent on Google Scholar for looking up legal opinions. Despite the very simple interface and relative lack of advanced functionality, it just works so speedily and consistently. San Francisco has a fantastic free law library where I can use Lexis & Westlaw, but the experience is unpleasant, to say the least.
One nitpick I do have with Scholar, though, is that there's no easy way to correct errors - for example, there's a case I've looked at several times where the first party's name is misspelled in the title, so if I'm inspired to look it up again for some reason my first attempt fails until I remember to use multiple search terms.