| Field | Abbrev. | Description | Terms & Connectors Example |
| Citation | ci | Case citation | ci(52 +5 104) |
| Title | ti | Party names | ti(Shapiro /p McNeill) |
| Court1 | co | Deciding court | co(high) |
| Date | da | Decision date | da(aft mm/dd/yyyy & bef mm/dd/yyyy) |
| Judge | ju | Judge or Justice writing the principal opinion | ju(Kaye) |
| Summary | su | Summary (Appeal Statement) | su(Second /s Department) |
| Topic | to | Main Head & Subhead classifications | to(attorney +5 client) |
| Headnote | he | Official Reports Headnotes | he("out-of-court declarations") |
| Digest | di | Combined Topic & Headnote fields | di(crimes /p evidence & "indicia of reliability") |
| Counsel | cnl | Names of Counsel | cnl(Nixon & Hargrave) |
| Prelim | pr | Full court name and date (spelled out) | PR(("Supreme Court" % "Appellate Division") & "June 23, 1998") |
| Opinions2 | op | Opinions (Majority, Concurring & Dissent) & all deciding Judges | op("right to counsel" & Bellacosa) |
1co(high)—Court of Appeals decisions; co(low)—App Div & lower court decisions; co(1)—App Div, First Dept decisions; co(1 4) App Div, First & Fourth Dept decisions. For other court restrictions use the Preliminary field, e.g., pr("Appellate Division") confines search to any of the App Div departments; pr("Family Court") limits search to Family Court cases.
2You may limit your searches to the text of Majority (maj), Concurring (con) or Dissenting (dis) opinions and the Judges who wrote these opinions by using the field restrictions noted in parentheses.
Connectors
| & or and (terms in the same document) | a space or or (one search term or the other) | /s (in the same sentence) | /p (in the same paragraph) |
| /n (terms within n terms of each other where n is between 1 & 250 | +n (the first term precedes the second by n terms) +s (the first term precedes the second in the same sentence) | "" (terms appear in the same order as in the quotation marks) | % or but not (excludes documents containing terms following the %) |
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