High Court Casebriefs Case Summaries are a Good Product
High Court Case Summaries are a good product. Back about four years ago for a two year period we used to think they were the best written and best edited casebriefs.
Two years ago we compared 300 case briefs from Rom Law ™ to the corresponding High Court CaseBriefs. We took the hardest cases to case brief which are constitutional law cases. This is because the professors are simply looking for the theory of the case to be the holding. If you do not understand how the case is used in subsequent cases, you have no hope of properly briefing the cases. High Court casebriefs case summaries missed the major issues in 39% of the cases. Otherwise the facts, and most of the holding material was great.
We object strongly to the format. It does you no good to purchase printed products. What good is a case brief book that most schools won't let you take into class? You will have to retype most of the information. That is an extremely poor use of your time.
The casebrief cartoons are cute. The definitions the product has of the key words as part of the casebrief are not so good. They are so bad they have to reach up to touch bottom.
Most of the books we see on the shelves for High Court Casebrief Case Summaries available for sale are out of date and do not track the most recent versions of the casebooks. They are also overpriced for a printed book.
Current High Court Casebriefs Case Summaries are not digital and cost too much.
This company used to be independent and the original owner did an excellent job in printing and laying out these books. They were purchased by West and we have seen a steady decline in the quality of the layout.
We have always thought this was a good product. But we now know that they do not case brief the entire case and they miss many of the hidden issues on the more difficult to brief cases.
In 2008 we noticed that they are selling individual case briefs for $1.99 each online. Can you spell rip off! A 250 case casebook would cost a fortune. Their printed versions are overpriced but the same $40 book for now a $1.99 for each case brief....SHAME, SHAME, SHAME.
Further, we have started to see new printings of the casebrief books and the quality of the layout and cartoons has dramatically fallen.
Otherwise High Court Casebrief Case Summaries is a good product and we recommend it. It they were digital we would like it a lot more.
We still have the same recommendation for 2010.
