What is Term Frequency Searching?

You can now limit the results retrieved by search queries on Westlaw Canada to display only those documents that refer to particular search terms extensively, or documents that have one term appear more often than others. You are now able to specify that a term must appear at least a certain number of times within a document before that document is included in your search result list.

How to use the new Term Frequency search functionality

There are two ways to add Term Frequency criteria to your search query. You can add the Term Frequency connector "atleast(term)" directly to the text of your search query - e.g., "grandparent & atleast4(adoption)". Or you can use the Term Frequency link when doing a Terms and Connectors search.

For more information about and guidance on using Term Frequency to refine your Westlaw searches, click here.