Citation Identification (name the portion of the cite in [ ])
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Recognizing Style (of the case)
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100
A work that summarizes or restates American common law for a particular topic. It reflects the common law but is not the law of any particular jurisdiction, unless adopted by a jurisdiction.
What is a restatement?
100
State v. Washington, [92] S.W.3d 205, 208 (Mo. Ct. App. 2002).
What is the reporter volume number?
100
This is the highest appellate state court in Missouri.
What is the Missouri Supreme Court?
100
State of Missouri, Plaintiff-Respondent,
v.
Joseph Dean Moore, Defendant-Appellant.
Who are the parties?
100
This date is located in the heading of a reported case.
What is the date of the decision?
200
Examples include legal magazines, law reviews, law journals, and bar journals that are published on a periodic basis.
What is a legal periodical?
200
State v. Washington, 92 [S.W.3d] 205, 208 (Mo. Ct. App. 2002).
What is the reporter abbreviation?
200
These are intermediate appellate courts in the federal system.
What are the circuit courts of appeal?
200
No. 49107
What is the docket number?
200
The first level of the state court system where most Missouri cases start.
What are the trial/circuit courts?
300
A set of books which provide the subsequent judicial history and interpretation of reported decisions.
What is a citator?
300
State v. Washington, 92 S.W.3d 205, 208 ([Mo. Ct. App.] 2002).
Who is the deciding court?
300
The first level of the federal court system where most cases start.
What is a federal district court?
300
Motion for Rehearing and/or Transfer to the Supreme Court Denied June 19, 1986. Application to Transfer Denied Sept. 16, 1986.
What is the procedural history?
300
A secondary source that thoroughly covers substantive practice areas in a specific jurisdiction. These sources are often authored by lawyers, judges and law professors familiar with the particular jurisdiction.
What is a practice series?
400
Research sources that summarize, explain and critique an area of law. Typically authored by well-recognized experts. These vary considerably in size, number of volumes, breadth and depth of coverage. Examples include Prosser and Keaton on the law of Torts.
What is a treatise?
400
State v. Washington, 92 S.W.3d 205, [208] (Mo. Ct. App. 2002).
What is the pinpoint page?
400
The names of the geographical regions that the intermediate appellate state courts of Missouri are divided into.
What are the Western, Eastern, and Southern districts?
400
[1] KeyCite Citing References for this Headnote.
[key] 37 Assault and Battery
[key] 3711 Criminal Responsibility
[key] 37k62 Defenses
[key] 37k67 k. Self-Defense.
Deadly force may be used in self-defense only where there is an absence of aggression or provocation on part of the defendant, a necessity, real or apparent, ofr defendant to use deadly force to save himself from...
What is a headnote?
400
A brief summary of a legal rule or significant facts in a case which precedes the printed opinion.
What is a headnote?
500
State basic propositions of law and provide brief explanatory discussions. These publications provide general background information for an area of the law and can help lead the reader to primary authority. An example includes Am.Jur.2d.
What is a legal encyclopedia?
500
State v. Washington, 92 S.W.3d [205], 208 (Mo. Ct. App. 2002).
What is the first/originating page?
500
A decision from a federal district court in Kansas City would be appealed to this intermediate appellate court.
What is the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals?
500
Reversed in part and affirmed in part.
What is the decision of the court?
500
The skills learned in law school that are most used by practicing attorneys.