Westlaw Campus offers many "connectors" for building complex and specific legal searches. If you follow the steps for Finding Legal Cases by Subject and get too many irrelevant results, consider using these techniques.
OR |
Find at least one of two words/phrases (synonyms) Example: (dog OR canine) |
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Find both of two words/phrases Example: (dog OR canine) AND "search and seizure" |
/N |
Find two words or phrases within N words of each other (/5 finds words within 5 words of eachother) Example: (dog OR canine) /5 "search and seizure"
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EXAMPLE SEARCH: (dog OR canine) /5 "search and seizure"