We would like to show how to use one of the features built into EVA, our free brief analyzer and case search platform.

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I’d like to now highlight one of the cool features that has been built into EVA, our generate overview feature. Let’s say you’ve uploaded a brief like I’ve done so here. You see the case treatments above and then you see the brief processed here below. Now let’s say there’s a sentence or a section of the brief and you’d like to know whether there’s any other case law out there that’s relevant. What you would do is you scroll through. Let’s say you want to know more about the following phrase and whether there are any cases out there that have similar language to this. What you do is you highlight it, you click. What EVA will do is it generates five case law results for you that contain similar language. Now let’s say you want to conduct a deeper dive into one of these cases. You click on it, and EVA immediately brings you to the part of the case that has similar language to that language you just highlighted, and as you’ll see here, this case discusses, among other things, the doctrine of inevitable discovery. Now, let’s say you want to know more about what it says about the doctrine of inevitable discovery but you don’t want to read this whole case. What you do is you go up here, you click the generate overview button, you ask, “What is the doctrine of inevitable discovery?” and what EVA will do is it will quickly generate an overview of the case with that question in mind, which you can read really quickly and get a better sense of the case without having to read through the whole thing. Now, what if you want to just get immediately to a specific case but you don’t want to go through the process that I just went through, you want to short-circuit that? What you can do instead is just go to the case search functionality, type the case by name or by case citation, so let’s say I want to look up that case that we were just looking at, just search like this, and what EVA will do is it will search our entire database of case law to generate the case that I was just looking at, United States. Eng right here. I open that up. I read it a little bit. I notice that it’s about the doctrine of inevitable discovery, so I go to the generate overview button, and again I ask, “What is the doctrine of inevitable discovery?” and EVA will generate my overview, and there we go.