Statutes
Cases
Citators
Secondary Sources
Grab Bag
100
Where you can find the Utah Code online for free.
What is Utah State Legislative web site?
100
Reporter where Utah judicial opinions are published?
What is Pacific Reporter?
100
A symbol assigned to cases indicating that the case has been overturned or reversed on at least one point of law.
What is the red flag?
100
CJS and AmJur2d are examples of this type of secondary source.
What are legal encyclopedias?
100
What you would do if you were in an unfamiliar database and wanted to type in the most effective search you could.
What is check for "help" or "search tips", etc., around the search box?
200
Most important feature of an annotated code.
What are "case annotations"?
200
The part of the case that West Key Number system utilizes to find cases on similar legal issues.
What are headnotes?
200
Name of citator that arranges citing cases by number of 'bars'.
What is KeyCite or Shepards?
200
Library catalogs will help you find this type of useful item.
What are books (or treatises)?
200
Two Internet search engines besides Google.
What are Ask.com, Bing.com, etc.?
300
This information is immediately following the text of every code section in the US Code and all state codes.
What is the "credits" or "history" of a code section where you can look to see if/when a code section was originally enacted and amended?
300
Six databases that contain full text Utah cases.
What is Lexis, Westlaw, Bloomberg Law, Versuslaw, Casemaker, Casetext, GoogleScholar, Utah Courts website?
300
Two reasons why you would want to use Shepards or KeyCite over any other citator.
What is because you can Shepardize/KeyCite statutes and regulations? Or because the citators draw from a larger database so have more citing references? Or because the filtering is very sophisticated?
300
Courts often respect this secondary source compilation of common law rules as nearly as authoritative as court decisions.
What are Restatements?
300
In the federal legislative process, the number that is assigned to to a bill after it becomes a law and is published as a slip law.
What is Public Law number?
400
Name of set of books containing Utah session laws.
What is Laws of Utah?
400
Way to determine if you can cite to an unpublished decision in a pleading you are submitting to court.
What is check the court rules of the jurisdiction?
400
Five ways you can filter (or narrow) citing decisions of a case.
What is by headnote, by date, by jurisdiction (court), by depth of treatment (bars), by analysis (treatment codes), keyword search?
400
You must determine the reliability of this type of source since it may be written by authors who have no credentials.
What are web sites?
400
This is used in an unofficial reporter, in print and online, to provide the citation to the official reporter for the same case.
What is star pagination?
500
Number of titles (corresponding to subjects) in the United States Code.
What is 51?
500
Name of database where you can find docket information for Utah state trial court cases.
What is Utah Courts Xchange?
500
Name of the citator on Bloomberg Law.
What is BCite?
500
Useful feature in an ALR which leads you to primary sources.
What is the Table of Cases or Table of Jurisdictions?
500
Database that contains tribal court opinions.
What is Versuslaw?
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