On August 30, the developer Michael Poulshock announced the release of version 4.0 of his Jureeka Web browser extension for Firefox. Version 4.0 for Chrome will be released in the near future. Jureeka is a free add-on application that you can download and install in your Web browser that automatically recognizes legal citations in Web pages you are reading and turns them into clickable links to those resources wherever they may be found on the Internet. With Jureeka installed, users can easily locate many of the cases, codes, regulations, and other law-related materials they see referenced in a Web article from a free source on the Internet. Jureeka recognizes numerous citation formats, including:

Jureeka references to the Federal Rules of Evidence are just plain text.

After Jureeka those references to Federal Rules of Evidence are clickable links (noted by the double green underline).

With the announcement of version 4.0 for Firefox, also came news that Jureeka would now be powered by Cornell's Legal Information Institute (LII). "The LII now hosts Jureeka's legal citation redirection service and has assumed primary responsibility for the development and maintenance of the Firefox add-on. This allows Jureeka to reach a wider audience, to have long-term institutional support, and to integrate tightly with the LII's existing web services," according to Poulshock's blog post. According to the blog post, some of the changes in version 4.0 include, "redirection to specific subsections of the U.S. Code and to specific sections of the Code of Federal Regulations, which is quite helpful. Version 4 also includes an improved toolbar, a number of minor bug fixes, improved citation recognition, and fewer 'false positive' linkifications."

The Jureeka extension was first launched in late 2007.

Article first published as Jureeka Browser Plug-in Creates Links to Case Law Citations in Web Pages on Technorati.