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Tips on Advanced Searching

This web site provides a wide range of advanced searching options that can be used in the "Advanced Search" field.  Please see the table of all field names at the end of this document to assist you in advanced searching.

Wildcard searches (described below) can be done in the simple search areas (all fields above Advanced Search).  

Please note that all simple search fields assume you are searching for single terms if multiple words are entered. For example, if you enter Duty to Cooperate in the Topic field, your search will return items with duty OR cooperate as topics (which includes Fiduciary Duty, Duty to Cooperate, and Failure to Cooperate). If you intended to look topics including ALL words, search using quotes around both words ("Duty to Cooperate"). Likewise, if you want to search by multiple years as your search criteria, for example, enter 1997 2000 into the Year field (with spaces between each year you enter) and you will receive all proceedings with the years 1997 or 2000.

Additionally, the "Simple" and "Advanced" searches are mutually exclusive; if you enter information into "Advanced Search," any text entered in any of the other search fields above will be ignored.

Terms

A search is broken up into terms and operators. There are two types of terms: Single Terms and Phrases.

A Single Term is a single word such as "test" or "hello".

A Phrase is a group of words surrounded by double quotes such as "hello dolly".

Multiple terms can be combined together with Boolean operators to form a more complex search (see section below).
Wildcard Searches

You can perform single and multiple character wildcard searches.

To perform a single character wildcard search use the "?" symbol.

To perform a multiple character wildcard search use the "*" symbol.

The single character wildcard search looks for terms that match that with the single character replaced. For example, to search for "text" or "test" you can use the search:

te?t

Multiple character wildcard searches look for 0 or more characters. For example, to search for test, tests or tester, you can use the search:

test*

You can also use the wildcard searches in the middle of a term.

te*t

Note: You cannot use a * or ? symbol as the first character of a search.
Range Searches

Range Searches allow you to match documents whose field values are between the lower and upper bound specified by the Range Search. Range Searches can be inclusive or exclusive of the upper and lower bounds.

year:[1995 TO 2000]

This will find documents whose year fields have values between 1995 and 2000, inclusive. Note that Range Searches are not reserved for date fields. You could also use range searches with non-date fields:

topic:{fees TO files}

This will find all documents whose topics are between fees and files, but not including fees and files.

Inclusive range searches are denoted by square brackets. Exclusive range searches are denoted by curly brackets.

 
Boolean operators

Boolean operators allow terms to be combined through logic operators. This web site supports AND, "+", OR, NOT and "-" as Boolean operators (Note: Boolean operators must be ALL CAPS).

OR

The OR operator is the default conjunction operator. This means that if there is no Boolean operator between two terms, the OR operator is used. OR links two terms and finds a matching document if either of the terms exist in a document. This is equivalent to a union using sets. The symbol || can be used in place of the word OR.

To search for documents that contain either "bankruptcy law" or just "bankruptcy" use the search:

"bankruptcy law" bankruptcy

or

"bankruptcy law" OR bankruptcy
AND

The AND operator matches documents where both terms exist anywhere in the text of a single document. This is equivalent to an intersection using sets. The symbol && can be used in place of the word AND.

To search for documents that contain "bankruptcy law" and "tax law" use the search:

"bankruptcy law" AND "tax law"
+

The "+" or required operator requires that the term after the "+" symbol exist somewhere in a field of a single document.

To search for documents that must contain "bankruptcy" and may contain "tax" use the search:

+bankruptcy tax
NOT

The NOT operator excludes documents that contain the term after NOT. This is equivalent to a difference using sets. The symbol ! can be used in place of the word NOT.

To search for documents that contain "bankruptcy law" but not "tax law" use the search:

"bankruptcy law" NOT "tax law"

Note: The NOT operator cannot be used with just one term. For example, the following search will return no results:

NOT "bankruptcy law"
-

The "-" or prohibit operator excludes documents that contain the term after the "-" symbol.

To search for documents that contain "bankruptcy " but not "law" use the search:

"bankruptcy" -"law"

 
Grouping

This web site supports using parentheses to group clauses to form sub searches. This can be very useful if you want to control the Boolean logic for a search.

To search for either "bankruptcy" or "tax" and "law" use the search:

(bankruptcy OR tax) AND law

This eliminates any confusion and makes sure that law must exist and either term bankruptcy or tax may exist.

 
Field Grouping

This web site supports using parentheses to group multiple clauses to a single field.

To search for a title that contains both the word "smith" and the phrase "disciplinary proceeding against" use the search:

title:(+smith +"disciplinary proceeding against")

 
Fields

This web site supports fielded data. When performing a search you can either specify a field, or use the default field. The field names and default field is implementation specific.

You can search any field by typing the field name followed by a colon ":" and then the term you are looking for.

As an example, let's assume the Compendium contains two fields, title and text, and text is the default field. If you want to find the document entitled "Disciplinary Proceedings Against Smith" which contains the text "Milwaukee county," you can enter:

title:"Disciplinary Proceedings Against Smith" AND text:Milwaukee

or

title:"Disciplinary Proceedings Against Smith" AND Milwaukee

Since text is the default field, the field indicator is not required.

Note: The field is only valid for the term that it directly precedes, so the search

title:Disciplinary Proceedings Against Smith

Will only find "Disciplinary" in the title field. It will find "Proceedings," "Against," and "Smith" in the default field (in this case the text field).

 
All Field Names

Below is a list of all field names used in the Compendium.  To use the Advanced Search, simply type the field name, followed by a colon ( : ), followed by your search criteria.  Remember, if you are searching for a phrase, you must include quotation marks around the phrase.

Field Name Field Description
type
published (Supreme Court Decision)
public (Public Reprimand)
private (Private Reprimand)
title proceeding's title
year proceeding's year
areaofpractice proceeding's area of practice
sanction proceeding's sanction
topic proceeding's topic
scr proceeding's Supreme Court Rule(s)
namef proceeding's attorney first name
namem proceeding's attorney middle name
namel proceeding's attorney last name
suffix proceeding's attorney suffix
text proceeding's paragraph text (default field)

 

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