Today Fastcase announced it acquired fellow legal research platform Judicata in a move to enhance its own legal analysis features. The acquisition comes at a time when the company is looking to provide a broader range of legal services.

While financial details were not disclosed, Judicata's reach in the legal industry will undoubtedly grow due to the acquisition. Previously, Judicata only provided analysis of California case law. Now, Judicata's search features will be leveraged in Fastcase and Docket Alarm Inc., a docket alerting and analytics company Fastcase acquired in 2018

"Some of the research tools Judicata has built for California will be very powerful for Fastcase," said Fastcase CEO Ed Walters. He explained that those features include Judicata's citator function and its judicial search result ranking capabilities.