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Certified Legal Research

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1. West key number system






2. Case law - or judicial opinion - that articulates common law principles






3. Used to indicate that the full citation appears immediately above - meaning that no other citations intervene between the full citation and the short form id.






4. Contain a general commentary on or explanation of the subject.






5. Is an official publication that includes all laws enacted by Congress.






6. Is the same case published in more than one case reporter and should not be used when citing to U.S. Supreme Court cases; cite to U.S. Reports ONLY - for state cases must be cited if they exist.






7. Black's Law and Ballentine's Law






8. Is the primary finding tool for statutory law - either state or federal.






9. Secondary authority that is leading annotated law reporter published by Lawyers Co-op. Distinguishing feature not the cases that it reports - but the extensive editorial commentary that follows each reported case - Restatements of Law Published by th






10. The cited authority contradicts the proposition stated in the memorandum






11. Statutes at Large






12. U.S. Const. amend. XIV -






13. Case law






14. Researcher checks red advance sheets first (most recent); yellow paperback; and finally - the bound volume(s).

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15. 1. the title (chapter) number 2. abbreviation for the Code of Federal Regulation 3. section number symbol and the section number; and 4. year of publication






16. Sometimes called a hornbook - is a single-volume text written by a legal scholar in a given topic area






17. Is issued when a federal case first decides a case. This is a single opinion of the court issued without headnotes and without indexing.






18. Use index to find statute section; read the statutory section; and check supplements for status.






19. Official publication






20. Connecticut - Delaware - D.C. (Court of Appeals) - Maine - Maryland - New Hampshire - New Jersey - Pennsylvania - Rhode Island - and Vermont






21. Govern the types of evidence that are admissible in criminal and civil trials and - in some situations - the manner in which the evidence can be presented during trial






22. Mandatory legal authority that consists of constitutions - statutes - case law - rules of procedure - rules of evidence - administrative rules - court rules - executive orders






23. 1. number of the Code title2. abbreviation for the United States Code 3. section symbol - followed by the number of the Code section; and4. date of the Code volume in which the most recent version of the section can be found






24. 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






25. 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.






26. Supplemented by an individual - cumulative pocket part found at the back of each volume in the series.






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






28. Official publication






29. Into seven regions.






30. A continuing digest series that collects headnote summaries from all federal and state courts (combined) during consecutive ten-year periods.






31. Fed. R. Crim. P. 42






32. How civil actions are handled - including rules that cover the complaint - summons - answer - discovery process - trial - and post-trial procedures






33. The Statutes at Large.






34. Secondary authority






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






36. A secondary authority which is not the law itself but is - rather - a persuasive presentation by legal scholars of what the law is or what it should be in a particular topic






37. Published by Lawyers Co-op






38. Anew - from the beginning - the case is tried in the appellate court as if it had not been tried previously - and witness are allowed to testify.






39. Result or disposition of the case






40. Official publication






41. Contains recent decisions of the United States Supreme Court






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






43. Opinion of the entire court (all judges who heard the case) - as opposed to an opinion written by a specific judge






44. Case reports - published by West - that divides the United States into seven geographical regions and reports the decisions of the highest appellate court of each state within that region.






45. The court's ruling or disposition of the case (whether affirmed - reversed - remanded - or dismissed)






46. Alabama - Florida - Louisiana - and Mississippi






47. 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






48. The most comprehensive collection of legal citators.

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49. USOC - also known as the Blue Book - is universally accepted authority on legal citations - which is published jointly by the law reviews of Columbia - Harvard - the University of Pennsylvania - and Yale Law Schools.






50. While indexes summarize statute topics