Is the sites coverage of decisional law comprehensive?
No, except that it aspires to cover every federal appellate decision involving the admissibility of expert evidence, published or unpublished, since January 1, 2000. That basic corpus of material was selected for several reasons. Federal appellate decisions have greater precedential weight than district court opinions, are more likely to be available on the web, and are of sufficiently manageable volume that a single attorney can realistically hope to track them all. The starting date of January 1, 2000, is arbitrary, but it can be defended on the ground that prior to that date, district court decisions decided before Kumho Tire were still working their way through the appellate system. In mid-2004, the site expanded its coverage to include selected appellate decisions from several state court systems. In most of those states, we are assisted by correspondents who are practicing attorneys and who have agreed to monitor the jurisdiction’s cases for this site. The site’s state-law covera
No, except that it aspires to cover every federal appellate decision involving the admissibility of expert evidence, published or unpublished, since January 1, 2000. That basic corpus of material was selected for several reasons. Federal appellate decisions have greater precedential weight than district court opinions, are more likely to be available on the web, and are of sufficiently manageable volume that a single attorney can realistically hope to track them all. The starting date of January 1, 2000, is arbitrary, but it can be defended on the ground that prior to that date, district court decisions decided before Kumho Tire were still working their way through the appellate system. In mid-2004, the site expanded its coverage to include selected appellate decisions from several state court systems. In most of those states, we are assisted by correspondents who are practicing attorneys and who have agreed to monitor the jurisdiction’s cases for this site. The site’s state-law covera
