CaseMax
Coming soonSearch every published U.S. opinion — all 50 states and every federal court — for $59/month per user. No meters, no lock-in. The low-cost alternative to Westlaw and LexisNexis.
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9M+
Total opinions
published U.S. decisions
All 50
State coverage
+ D.C. & territories
All fed.
Federal coverage
SCOTUS to District Courts
Daily
Updated
new opinions indexed every day
Westlaw and LexisNexis are excellent — and priced like it. CaseMax matches their coverage with no annual contract and no enterprise negotiation.
| Feature | CaseMax | Westlaw | LexisNexis |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monthly price (per user) | $59 | $350 - $600* | $350 - $600* |
| Contract | Month-to-month | Annual | Annual |
| Cancel anytime | |||
| State case coverage | All 50 states | All 50 states | All 50 states |
| Federal case coverage | All federal courts | All federal courts | All federal courts |
| Citation verification included | KeyCite (separate) | Shepard's (separate) | |
| AI / natural-language search |
* Westlaw Edge and Lexis+ list pricing varies by plan, firm size, and negotiation; $350-$600/mo per user is a representative range from published and analyst-reported plans as of 2025-2026. KeyCite and Shepard's are core to those platforms but often tiered or metered by plan. CaseMax pricing is flat at $59/mo per user with no annual commitment.
Every opinion in CaseMax comes with LLM-generated analysis — holdings, reasoning, and treatment — so you can triage 50 cases in the time it used to take to read five. Example below: Brown v. Board of Education, 347 U.S. 483 (1954).
The case
347 U.S. 483 (1954) · Supreme Court of the United States
Decided May 17, 1954 · Warren, C.J., unanimous
Facts: Plaintiffs, Black children in Topeka, Kansas and other districts, were denied admission to public schools attended by white children under laws requiring or permitting racial segregation. They sought admission on the ground that segregation deprived them of equal protection under the Fourteenth Amendment, even though the physical facilities and other tangible factors were equalized.
“We conclude that, in the field of public education, the doctrine of ‘separate but equal’ has no place. Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.”
Holding: Racial segregation of public schools violates the Equal Protection Clause. Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U.S. 537 (1896), as applied to public education, is overruled in that context.
Opinion: full text, headnotes, and subsequent history available in CaseMax. Cited by 30,000+ later opinions.
LLM-generated analysis
Unanimous SCOTUS ends de jure school segregation. The Court holds that separating children in public schools solely by race — even with equal tangible resources — deprives minority children of equal educational opportunity and violates equal protection.
If you are searching for an alternative to Westlaw or an alternative to LexisNexis, CaseMax was built for you. For years the only way to get comprehensive U.S. caselaw — every state, every federal court — was an enterprise contract at $350 to $600 per user per month, with annual lock-in and metered retrievals.
Low-cost legal case research should not mean incomplete research. CaseMax gives solos, small firms, and litigators who live in the reporters the same 9M+ opinion corpus that powers BigLaw research — searchable by keyword, boolean, citation, and natural language — for $59 per user per month, unlimited, cancel anytime. No per-search fees, no annual commitment, no retention call to cancel.
Looking for a Lexis alternative or Westlaw alternative that actually replaces your daily workflow? CaseMax covers SCOTUS, all 13 Circuits, all 94 District Courts, Bankruptcy Courts, and every publishing state court — with headnotes, prior and subsequent history, and LLM-generated holdings and reasoning on every opinion. It is affordable legal research without cutting coverage.
Westlaw-grade coverage without the Westlaw invoice. One flat fee your bookkeeper will love.
Unlimited deep dives — no watching a search counter or rationing retrievals before month-end.
Full headnotes and history for empirical work, without an enterprise license.
Low-cost legal case research with the same courts, better search, and no enterprise contract.
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