Bloomberg Law’s Case Analysis functionality has been expanded to Ohio Laws and Regulations. Users can now pull up an Ohio statute or regulation and click on the Case Analysis tab located along the top of the page to quickly view opinions discussing the provision they are researching. This feature allows users to filter the relevant opinions by Keyword, Date, Court, or Topic to easily identify the most useful results. Bloomberg Law also classifies and assigns a strength of discussion score to the opinion text surrounding each citation, enabling users to focus on the legal discussions most likely to inform their research.
Case Analysis functionality has been added to the Ohio Revised Code, Ohio Court Rules and Ohio Administrative Code.
This functionality has been available for a while now for the United States Code. It is somewhat like the case notes in Lexis and Westlaw, except that the Bloomberg Case Analysis is a straight list of cases citing the code section, whereas Lexis and Westlaw has human editors that pick and choose what cases to put into the case notes. The strength of discussion indicator and filters on Bloomberg help indicate which cases may be more important.
