PreCYdent.com - Justice for All

“The PreCYdent Team is very happy to welcome you to the "alpha" version of our new legal research website. By "alpha" we mean that our site is still in its early development. Thus we would value highly the comments and suggestions regarding our service.

PreCYdent is based on two fundamental principles. First, we at PreCYdent believe that all lawyers, law librarians, law students, and the general public should have access to state-of-the-art search technology to help them navigate through the large and complex body of legal authority. We have heard law students ask, as perhaps you have, about online legal research: "Why can't I just do my search with a few search words, like I do on Google?" PreCYdent has an answer to that question: Now you can. Second, we believe judicial opinions and statutes must be in the public domain, in practice as well as in theory. To us this means that effective legal research in all of these materials should be free to the user -- not expensive, not inexpensive. Free. We believe this principle is of vital importance not only to the United States, but to all nations that practice or aspire to practice the rule of law. “

This site opens up the legal arena to everyone, not just highly paid lawyers. Anyone interested in learning more about the law can easily search the site and find relevant and useful information. It’s got powerful filtering capabilities too.

You can tell that the site is still in alpha. It’s got a sterile, nondescript interface. It seems to be unstable, as the links don’t work at all times.