Joseph Thorndike
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Search Connectors
Note: A space between words is searched as “AND.”
- AND
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Both (or all) the words appear in the document
Example: Treasury AND anti-inversion AND guidance [AND must be uppercase]
- OR
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Search for alternate terms
Example: law OR legislation [OR must be uppercase]
- “ ”
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Exact phrase
Example: "disguised sales"
Example: "profit and loss"
- *
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Wildcard / Root expander
Example: Culberts*n will retrieve Culbertson, Culbertsen, etc.
Example: audit* will retrieve all words beginning with "audit," including audits, auditor, and auditing
- NOT or –
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Example: legislative NOT history
Example: legislative –history [NOT must be uppercase]
- ~
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Use fuzzy match to retrieve words with similar spelling
Example: Shepherd~ will retrieve Sheppard
- ~n
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Proximity – within n words
Example: "Ireland inversion"~5 retrieves documents where Ireland is within 5 words of inversion
- ( )
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Group terms together to build searches
Example: (Swiss OR Switzerland) AND bank* AND (record or account)
Code section searches:
In the search box, type codesections: followed by a code section
Example: codesections:2642
Retrieving Documents with a Tax Analysts’ Citation:
Put the citation within quotes:
"2014 TNT 66-1" "143 Tax Notes 7" "Tax Notes, Apr. 7, 2014, p. 7"
Field Restricted Searching:
To retrieve documents with terms appearing in a given field, enter the field followed by a colon and then your term or phrase (phrases should be in quotes).
To search for more than one term in a given field, precede each term with the field name followed by a colon.
Example: casename:Wynne
Example: judges:Halpern
Example: searchtitle:”economic substance”
Example: searchtitle:partnerships searchtitle:audit*
Available fields include:
Fields can be used together:
authors:Sheppard AND codesections:7874 AND headline:inversion*