Refined Searches in Google Scholar

If you use Google Scholar at all, you may be pleased to know that it’s now possible to refine certain searches. In a particular kind of search you want to know how a judgment or article has been received: this you can get by clicking on the “cited by [n]” link that will appear beneath each item in your search results. The happy ability to refine comes from Google’s addition of a switch to let you search within the articles or judgments that cited your initial work. Thus, to use a pedestrian example, Google Scholar returns 789 results for a search for [Drybones], first among these being R. v. Drybones 1970 SCR 282. This judgment has been cited by 231 other judgments and articles indexed on Google Scholar.

To refine these results, I searched for the term [charter] within them, producing 165 results.

Not an earthshaking development, perhaps, but welcome even so.

[hat tip @jacobglick]