For about a month now, I've been using the Kindle version of this book as an easy way to review the readings before class. For that purpose I would say it is okay, and having it on the Kindle app on my laptop makes it a nifty aid. Bu for the following reasons I will not use this as a replacement for readings, or even as a replacement for notes and outlines when studying for the final. The factual summaries and "rule of law" holdings tend to be pretty accurate, but the summary of the holding and reasoning is not only imprecise, but sometimes shockingly (and frustratingly) inaccurate. For example, I've seen concurring opinions labeled as dissents - that's the level of error this "study aid" commits. The language of the summaries is dated, almost Victorian-like. It is almost as if the person who wrote the summaries is not a native English speaker. The upshot is that I can't trust the book as a reliable summary of the reasoning - and in Fed Courts, it is often the reasoning that is most important (ESPECIALLY with the earlier cases. The summaries of Hunter's Lessee and Murdock v. City of Memphis, for example, are particularly heinous in their omission of detail and nuance - these are cases grappling with very fundamental questions of the interplay between Article III and the States. The book skips right over the arguments presented by the justices in those cases, and just kind of re-states the "rule of law holding" in the reasoning for that holding. Unhelpful, to say the least).
I'll continue to use the book before class to review readings I've already done, but I won't be recommending the book to others.
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