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1. Opinion issued by the majority of the judges of the appellate court; the holding of this opinion may be cited as precedent if all other criteria are met. There is only one in a case






2. United States Reports






3. Statutes at Large






4. Rule of law for which the case is cited as precedent; it is the legal effect of the facts of the case






5. Govern the form and procedure for appeals from the U.S. District Court to the Court of Appeals within the federal system






6. State and federal






7. Alaska - Arizona - California - Colorado - Hawaii - Idaho - Kansas - Montana - Nevada - New Mexico - Oklahoma - Oregon - Utah - Washington - and Wyoming






8. Contains recent decisions of the United States Supreme Court






9. Brief summary of a legal rule discussed in the opinion; headnotes are numbered. key numbers are used in West publications






10. The West key number system






11. W. Weitz - Nocturnal Crimes - 20 Brooklyn L. Rev. 180 (1992).






12. 22 C.F.R. A 145.6 (1992)






13. Is used in legal memoranda and briefs to indicate the full citation for the case follows at a later point in the memorandum or brief






14. Ritches Jr. v. Li - 665 F. Supp. 139 (E.D.Pa. 1991).






15. Ballantine's Law Dictionary 41 (3rd ed. 1969).






16. Decennial Digest






17. An unofficial publication of law that uses the key number system to aid the researcher






18. Extensive selected annotations






19. Published by the American Law Institute - it collects and distills the primary - general rules in a given legal topic area- what the rules are and sometime what the committee believes they ought to be. It also provides explanations of the rules and g






20. Compilations of cases and historical matter dealing with various aspects of a code of statute - which contain short summaries of other cases - both for and against






21. United States Reports






22. 1. full name of author 2. designation of type of article (required only if written by student); 3. title of article (italicized or underscored) 4. volume number of law review 5. abbreviated name of law review 6. page number where article begins; and






23. Reviews the record for errors of law and reaches its own factual finding.






24. An explanatory note






25. Slip opinions collected and published periodically






26. Case law






27. United States Supreme Court Reports - Lawyers' Edition






28. John Willis - Annotation - Industrial Noise: Promoting an Unsafe Work Enviroment - 76 A.L.R. Fed. 489 (1986).






29. Opinion issued by one or more judges of the appellate court which disagrees with both the result and the reasoning of the majority opinion. There can be more than one






30. Federal Rules Decisions






31. Precedent






32. Published by Lawyers Co-op






33. Federal Supplement (F. Supp.) - Federal Reporter - Second Series (F.2d) - Federal Reporter (F.) - Federal Cases (F. Cas.) - all unofficial and all published by West






34. Anew on the record - the appellate court must base its decision on the record (no new testimony can be received) but may reach an independent factual finding if the facts from the trial court are 'clearly erroneous' based on the record as a whole






35. Federal Reporter - Third Series (F.3d) - Federal Reporter - Second Series (F.2d) - Federal Reporter (F.) - Federal Cases (F. Cas.) - all unofficial and all published by West






36. A very brief opinion; a cursory opinion; an opinion so abbreviated that it is hardly an opinion at all






37. Georgia - North Carolina - South Carolina - Virginia - and West Virginia






38. The entire court participates rather than the permissible quorum. This does not mean that the entire court agrees on the outcome - however.






39. Caption - date of decision - parallel citations - headnote or syllabus - statement of facts - opinion - holding - rationale - dicta - decision






40. Seven






41. Summarize statute topics






42. 1. volume number of Fed. Reg. 2. abbreviation for Federal Register 3. page number where administrative rule begins; and 4. year of publication






43. Selected decisions






44. Primary authority






45. Opinion issued by one or more judges of the appellate court which agrees with the result reached by the majority but disagrees with the reasoning of the majority opinion. There can be more than one.






46. The cited authority states a proposition that is different from the proposition stated by the writer - but the proposition stated in the cited authority is sufficiently similar to lend support to the writer's proposition






47. Sometimes called adjective law - it prescribes the manner in which substantive laws must be enforced.






48. Published by West






49. Official publication






50. What federal session laws are published in