As surveyors our practice is governed by Statutory Law, Case Law, and others.

Case Law is sometime hard to look up if you do not have the availability of “West Law” or other case law search engines.  There is a free alternative called  “Google Scholar” https://scholar.google.com/ “

Search tips: https://scholar.google.com/intl/en/scholar/help.html    (read this as well)

About the site: https://scholar.google.com/intl/en/scholar/about.html

Metrics: https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=top_venues&hl=en

Scholar Citations: https://scholar.google.com/intl/en/scholar/citations.html

Scholar Button: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/google-scholar-button/ldipcbpaocekfooobnbcddclnhejkcpn?hl=en

A quick guide:

Before you start you search, there are two selections available just below the search box

• Articles
• “Articles” is straight forward.  Like any search engine you can type a phrase of what you are looking for or if you know the title or portions of the title you can type it in.
• Case Law
• “Case Law” is a little different, you have three options
• “Federal courts” -  “Georgia courts” or “State courts”

• “Federal courts” is straight forward – Type a phrase of what you are looking for or if you know the title or portions of the title you can type that in as well.
• “State courts” is a little different – you can select any state, several states or all of the states. 

Within the state you can select 

• all court cases” by selecting the state, “
• Court of Appeal’s
• Court of Criminal Appeals or 
• Supreme Court