Show HN: Full text search on 630M US court cases

A lot of commentators are missing the point. Caselaw is what lawyers rely on to determine what the law is. For years, there was a monopoly, the privately-held West Corporation in Minnesota. In the 1970s, the field became a duopoly, with the advent of Lexis. West eventually sold out to Thompson, the company is now Thompson-West. Computer-assisted legal research was extremely expensive. The Air Force set up FLITE, but efforts to access their database of cases failed. Manual research is…

It's pretty hilarious and somewhat frightening I found my dad's arrest 25 years ago for a speeding ticket he had "forgotten" to pay. I remember being 11 years old and having to wait 8 hours for my parents to come back from picking up a pizza. Data availability is crazy.

I've searched for "sandwich murder" and did not find what I was looking for, but the way the elisions line up are sometimes pretty funny. I've also learned that Subway shops are among the most dangerous eateries and that bologna especially seems to make people irritable enough to open fire. A few highlights for your consideration, redacted to protect the innocent, guilty, or hungry bystanders - that the evidence that defendant fired the murder weapon during the sandwich - bologna…