I've looked at a lot of apps from a lot of different companies that provide state statutes — sometimes a subset of the statutes on a particular topic, and sometimes comprehensive apps that include all of the provisions of a state's statutes, laws, codes, or whatever it is called in each state. I've found my new favorite: the apps by Tekk Innovations.
I've written about Tekk Innovations before, a small technology firm in Mountain View, California. One of the guys there, Kasim Te, worked as an aviation consultant and helicopter instructor which required him to constantly refer to a few titles of the Code of Federal Regulations. At the time, there were no iPhone apps containing the text of the CFR, so Te decided to make some of his own. The result was a series of CFR apps (a different app for each Title of the CFR) which I reviewed about a year ago. Tekk also makes LawStack, an app that I reviewed earlier this year which contains federal rules and statutes in a single app. Te recently sent me free copies of two of his state statute apps, one containing the entire Louisiana Revised Statutes (Titles 1 to 56) and one containing the complete Florida Statutes (Titles 1 to 48). Tekk Innovations sells similar apps (which I did not try) for the laws of California, Delaware, Illinois, Michigan, Missouri, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Texas, Virginia and Washington. These apps work great and I recommend them to any attorney who wants to carry the full set of statutes for a state on an iPhone.
The app contains a standard browse feature. The main page of the app lists all of the titles. Tap a title to see a list of chapters within that title, tap a chapter to see a list of sections within the chapter, and tap the title of the section to see the text of the section.
The app works in either portrait or landscape view. When you are looking at a section, you can double-tap to remove the menu items and devote your full screen to the text of the statute.
When you are looking at a section, you can tap the e-mail button at the top right to e-mail the full text of the section.
Tap the arrows at the bottom left and right of each statute to browse through each section in order. Tap the plus sign to add a specific statute to a list of bookmarks. You can also add a chapter to your bookmarks if you want easy access to a set of statutes within the chapter. Tap the information button at the top of most of the screens to adjust settings such as font size.
The app also has a very helpful search feature. There is a search box at the top of every screen that has an information button (every screen except for a screen containing the text of a statute). If you type multiple search terms, the app will look for every section containing all of the terms. If you put a phrase in quotes, the app will find every statute containing the exact phrase. You can use "OR" to find statutes containing either one term or another term. You can choose to search either the full text of the statutes or just the headers. The app shows you a list of the matches underneath the title and chapter (so that you have the full context of where the match was found), and when you tap one you will see the text of the statute with your search terms highlighted in yellow. If there is only one match, the list appears only for a fraction of a second and then the app brings you directly to the match.
There are two other things that I like about the search function. First, if you want a search history, just tap the blue bookmark icon located at the far right of the search bar. You can tap an old search and you can quickly repeat it without having to type it in again. Second, the app has a useful ability to search a subset of statutes. By default, you search the entire set of statutes, in all titles. However, in the settings you can turn on a feature called "Contextual Search." With that on, you can limit your search. If you are on the screen with all of the chapters listed within a title, you will only search within that title. If you are on a screen with all of the sections listed within a chapter, you will only search within that chapter. This makes it much faster to find something when you have a vague sense of where it is and don't want to get a lot of false hits.
The two apps I tried, Louisiana and Florida, were very fast on my iPhone 4, even when doing searches with lots of hit results. I didn't encounter any crashes or other errors, although I like the fact that the app has a built-in ability to report any error that you find in a statute. (It appears when you tap the button to e-mail a statute, as shown in the picture above.) One missing feature is that there is no way to jump directly to a statute if you know the number; you need to either browse to find it or do a search to find it. I also wish that there was a quick way to jump back to the home screen instead of having to page back several times to get there. It would be nice to see these features added in the future.
These apps are a little more expensive than similar apps sold by others. For example, last week I reviewed an app called Pocket Legal Florida which contains all of the Florida statutes for only $6.99. The similar app from Tekk Innovations costs $19.99. But as noted in my review of version 1.2 of Pocket Legal Florida, I had some problems with that app (it was slow, there is no way to e-mail the text of a statute, etc.) I'm sure that Pocket Legal will be improved, but at this point, version 1.5 of the Tekk Innovations Florida app is the better product.
Click here for Florida Statutes (48 Titles) ($19.99): 
Click here for Louisiana Laws (Titles 1-56 of LA Revised Statutes) ($19.99):
And here are links to the versions for other states. I didn't test these versions, but they appear to have the same interface as the two versions that I did test. Note that Illinois and New York are $5 more expensive than the rest. You can also click here to see all of the Tekk Innovations apps on the App Store.
California ($19.99):
Delaware ($19.99):
Illinois ($24.99):
Michigan ($19.99):
Missouri ($19.99):
New York ($24.99):
North Carolina ($19.99):
Oregon ($19.99):
Texas ($19.99):
Virginia ($19.99):
Washington ($19.99):
