This citator, now commercially available through LexisNexis, provides all the citing references to a case.
What is Shepard's?
100
After a case is decided, it is published in print in this format first.
What is a slip opinion?
100
New York State court of last resort
What is the New York State Court of Appeals?
100
This source, published by West, provides researchers encyclopedic coverage of New York Law.
What is New York Jurisprudence 2d (NY Jur)?
100
This database provides full-text PDF of the full-run of law reviews and many bar journals.
What is HeinOnline?
200
This type of code provides references to both primary and secondary sources in addition to the text of statutes.
What is an annotated code?
200
This is a series of books collecting the published cases within a given jurisdiction.
What is a reporter?
200
McKinneys and CLS
What are the two annotated codes published in New York State?
200
This publication offers "annotations" that provide detailed analyses on various legal topics, and also include references to cases and statutes from all American jurisdictions.
What is ALR or American Law Reports?
200
The highest appellate court in New York State.
What is the Court of Appeals?
300
This publication includes proposed and final regulations of executive branch agencies of the federal government.
What is the Federal Register?
300
Search this type of source to documents filed with the court & track pending litigation.
What are dockets?
300
NYCRR
What is the New York State Official Compilation of Codes Rules and Regulations? (NYS equivalent to the CFR)
300
This type of source, available in binders or electronically, contain a goldmine of information including cases, administrative decisions, analysis, and legal news.
What is a looseleaf?
300
The two areas of law that the US PTO govern?
What are patent & trademarks?
400
This web site, operated by Cornell Law school, provides access to federal statutes, state statutes, regulations, court rules, uniform laws, and a legal encyclopedia at no cost to the user.
What is the Legal Information Institute?
400
This system devised by West categorizes all American legal doctrine into topic, subtopics, and numbers. It has been designed to help researchers find cases on their topic with greater ease.
What is West Key Number System?
400
Bill Jackets
What is a source of New York State legislative history?
400
This source, published by the American Law Institute, provides concise articulations of the black-letter laws of a particular topic.
What are the Restatements?
400
This is the term given to legislation that empowers an agency to regulate a certain area of the law.
What is enabling legislation or statutory authority?
500
This finding aid helps you find where an act is codified in the code.
What is a popular name table?
500
This type of publication organizes case summaries from a certain jurisdiction alphabetically, by topic.
What is a digest?
500
NYS2d
What is New York Supplement 2d Series? (The unofficial New York state case reporter published by West)
500
This source, available in print and on Lexis, is an excellent to decode abbreviation.
What is Bieber's?
500
The online service with access to News, Company information, legal research, & Dockets.