Westlaw Edge Gets New ‘Precedent Analytics’ Showing the Cases and Courts Judges Rely On
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Now, Thomson Reuters is further enhancing its analytics offerings with the addition of Precedent Analytics, which it is rolling out to Westlaw Edge subscribers today and will be showing this week at Legalweek in New York. Precedent Analytics lets users see the citation patterns of individual judges, revealing the cases, courts, judges and citation language they rely on in deciding different legal issues. It also shows the frequency with which judges have dealt with different issues.
Here again, there are parallels to LexisNexis. In November, it launched Context, a product derived from Ravel Law that analyzes the language of specific judges’ opinions to identify the cases and arguments the judge finds persuasive. Whereas litigation analytics are generally based on data from court dockets, both Precedent Analytics and Context are based on analysis of case law and rulings.
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