Casetext CEO here. First, thank you for writing this. Hearing honest feedback from people who try out our service and improving is precisely how we’re going to

Casetext CEO here. First, thank you for writing this. Hearing honest feedback from people who try out our service and improving is precisely how we’re going to get better. And I love that you share both our enthusiasm for the idea and our optimism for the future of legal research. I wanted to note that we will be getting a lot better. Keep checking in over the next few months, and expect to see a lot of major improvements on the issues you noted as well as many other things as well. Until very recently we were a very small operation, and as it turns out, building a competing product to LexisNexis and Westlaw is exceptionally hard. (I don’t want to make excuses – trust me, nobody wants Casetext to be much better more than I do – but the reality is that a perfect product couldn’t be built overnight.) That said, with the backing of amazing investors [1], we just assembled a killer team [2], and now have the people and resources to get there. Another commenter (dmix) put it well: “Building hard things takes a long time.” Think of how long it took for a lot of the best sites on the web to become what they are today. We’ll get there – I promise. Finally, we do have the case you were searching for [3]. Why it didn’t show up in search is something we’ll be looking into this weekend. [1] http://techcrunch.com/2015/02/03/legal-tech-startup-casetext-raises-7-million-series-a-round-led-by-union-square-ventures/ http://techcrunch.com/2015/02/03/legal-tech-startup-casetext... [2] https://casetext.com/about https://casetext.com/about [3] https://casetext.com/case/people-v-powell-521 https://casetext.com/case/people-v-powell-521