United States District Court
District of Massachusetts
Opinions Search - Help
Search by Judge
| This search will return all opinions that are available by the Judge which you choose from the drop-down box. |
Search for All Recent Opinions
| This search will return a hyperlinked list of all opinions that have been added to the database in the last 30 days. |
Search by Keyword
| This search will retrieve any opinion it finds in the database which contains the keyword that was entered. |
Search by Judge AND Keyword
| By entering a keyword AND choosing a Judge from the drop-down list, you narrow your search to opinions containing your keyword, written by the selected Judge - only. |
Optional Criteria Descriptions:
Case sensitive
| Check this box to turn case sensitivity on for a word. For example, if you searched for the word 'court' and checked the Case Sensitive Box - your search would retrieve documents containing the word 'court' but not 'Court'. |
Partial match
| Check this box to turn on partial matching of each specified word. For example, if you used the word 'prison' as your keyword and checked the Partial Match Box - your search would retrieve documents containing the word 'prison' as well as 'prisoner'. |
Return only documents modified within the last __ days
| By entering a numeric value in this field, you will limit the search results to opinions modified during the specified time frame. |
Maximum number of documents returned
| Increases or decreases the number of opinions returned by the current search. |
Maximum number of matched lines per document returned
| Increases or decreases the number of matched lines located within a single opinion. These are the hyperlinked line numbers located beneath the document name. |
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