Jureeka: search for free online case law, statutes etc. (Firefox add-on)

Jureeka (download here) is a Firefox add-on that helps you find free online case law, statutes and regulations. Jureeka provides: 1) a toolbar for citation searching and viewing html versions of pdfs and 2) links within pages containing legal citations to the material cited. For example, if you view a blog which cites 36 C.F.R. Part 1270, that citation becomes 36 C.F.R. Part 1270, a link to the regulation on GPOAccess.

While a nifty tool, it is still under development and not without hitches. Some bugs I've encountered:

1. During composition of this post, Jureeka automatically embedded html code to make any recognizable citations into Jureeka links. I had to repeatedly remove the code in the html view.
2. Jureeka embeds links based on the recognition of a citation, not on whether it can actually provide a free online source to that material. Thus, many links return a page apologizing for not yet having found a source of that opinion/code etc.
   
3. Jureeka overwrites links already embedded in the content. For example, when viewing Catharine Cott's article on the District Court of Colorado, our links to sections of the U.S. Constitution were overwritten by Jureeka links, which claimed they had not found a free source of the content but did not allow the reader to use the links to free content which we had already provided.

by Esti Shay, Reference Librarian