What is a results list?
A results list is the list of results produced by a search. After you run a search that produces multiple results, Lexis Advance Pacific displays a results page consisting of two panes. The left pane lists the content types you searched and contains filters that enable you to narrow your results. The right pane initially lists either a snapshot of all results or the results for one of the content types you searched.
In snapshot view, you can select a specific content type from the Jump to drop-down list to go directly to the snapshot view for that type. Otherwise, to view all results for a given content type, select the name of the content type in the left pane or, in snapshot view, select the View all link below the list of results for that type. By default, no more than 25 results are listed per page. You can use the Settings option to increase that limit to 50 or to reduce it to 10.
Note also that you can use the Full View (
) and Condensed View
(
) icons at the top of the results list to display the results in either full or condensed
view. Full view lists all available information for each document, including document overviews, excerpts, and so on. Condensed view lists only minimal information for
each document by suppressing the display of document overviews, excerpts, and similar information.
Narrowing your results
After you display the results for a specific content type, the Narrow By heading appears in the left pane, followed by any jurisdiction, legal topic, or source filters you applied to the search. Below that, a list of headings appears, and you can select them in order to filter your results further. For example, you can enter additional terms in the Search Within Results search box to narrow the currently displayed results to only documents containing those terms. Note that the headings that appear can vary, depending on the content type you are viewing
As you select additional filters, they are immediately applied to the currently displayed results and are listed below the Narrow By
heading, the same as any filters you may have selected when creating the search. You can clear any filter by selecting the delete filter icon
(
) to the right of the filter name, or you can clear all filters by selecting
Clear. You can also select the Favourite icon (
)
to save the filters as favourites for use in future searches. For more information on narrowing results lists,
see How do I narrow or filter my results after a search?
Using the "one-case" parallel citations feature
Within a results list, a single document title may identify multiple documents (e.g., a QuickCITE® record and/or documents associated with one or more case reporters). When a title identifies multiple documents, a list of the parallel citations appears immediately below the title. Citations for reports that are accessible within Lexis Advance Pacific appear as hyperlinks, and you can select these hyperlinks to display the associated reports. (You can select the CaseBase signal to display the CaseBase document.)
Accessing documents outside your subscription plan
If a document falls outside your subscription plan, either an Access Now ($) link appears in the results list below the document title or an
Additional Charges Will Apply icon (
) appears below the title to the left of
each of the parallel citation hyperlinks. If you select the Access Now ($) link, you will be accepting the listed charges, and the document will appear.
If you select a parallel citation preceded by an Additional Charges Will Apply icon (),
the Additional Charges Will Apply page appears, where you either accept the charges and access the document or cancel the transaction. For more information on accessing
documents outside your subscription plan, see Accessing documents outside your subscription plan.
Creating alerts
You can select the alerts (
) icon at the top of the results list to
save your current search as a search alert. A search alert is a search you schedule Lexis Advance Pacific to repeat automatically
at periodic intervals. You can use search alerts to check for new results over time. For more information, see
Working with Alerts.
Delivering results (print, email, download, Dropbox)
You can select the delivery options button (
) to print, email, or
download results. You can also send results to Dropbox.
For more information, see What is document delivery?.
Saving results to Lexis Advance Pacific folders
In addition to downloading results, you can also save them to Lexis Advance Pacific folders. For more information, see Working with Folders.
Sorting
By default, when you display the results for a specific content type, they are listed in order of relevance. You can select options in the Sort by drop-down list to sort the list in different ways, depending on the content type.
Including or excluding legal phrase equivalents
In the Settings option, if you specified that your searches should include legal phrase equivalents, you can remove them from your results by selecting Exclude legal phrase equivalents from the Actions list at the top of the results list. Or, if you specified your searches should NOT include legal phrase equivalents, you can include them by selecting Include legal phrase equivalents.
Natural language and terms & connectors searches
When you run a search, Lexis Advance Pacific automatically determines whether to run a natural language or terms & connectors search. If the current search is run as a natural language search, then after the results appear, you can select Run as terms & connectors from the Actions drop-down list to run it as a terms & connectors search. Likewise, if the search is run as a terms & connectors search, you can select Run as natural language to run it as a natural language search. For more information on these different types of searches, see Creating natural language or terms & connectors searches.