Sometimes more than one piece of evidence proves a single fact. As you review documents in Casefleet, you can easily join various passages of text to the same fact using two methods:
Select multiple passages of text for a single citation using "Continue selection..." feature; or
Link new evidence to an existing fact in your chronology using the "Link to Existing Fact" option.
Method 1: Multiple highlights for a single fact citation
When reviewing a paged document in Casefleet, you can select multiple passages of highlighted text to include as a single fact citation. There are two ways to do this:
After highlighting your first text selection, choose "Continue selection..." from the highlight context menu to highlight and add additional passages to your fact.
Hold the CTRL key (CMD on Mac) while making additional text highlights with your mouse.
All selected passages will be included in the same fact citation when you create your new fact. This method is best for when you want to create several highlights linked to one citation.
Method 2: Link a New Citation to an Existing Fact
This method is designed for citing additional evidence to an existing fact in your Casefleet chronology. For instance, if you want your fact cited to a subset of specific pages in the same document or link different documents to the same fact, this method is the way to go.
First, open the document reviewer and highlight the portion of the text you wish to create the new citation for (or use the "cite page" button in the toolbar). When the "Create New Fact" sidebar opens, click the "Link to existing fact" button at the top of the form.
When you click "link to existing fact" a search bar appears allowing you to search through the existing facts in your timeline to locate which fact you would like linked to the current document location.
NOTE: The top search result will be the last 5 facts you created in the case.
Once you locate the fact you'd like to link the new citation to, click on it and the fact form will reopen. Any new highlighted text will automatically be added to the fact content following an ellipsis (...). From here, you can edit the merged/linked facts or leave them as is.
When you are done, click "Save". The result will be a single fact with multiple evidence citations.
You can also add new (or additional) citations directly on the Facts tab. Click here for instructions.