FIND ME A CASE
IT'S A FEDERAL CASE
WILD WILD WEST
THE SUPREMES
GIVE ME A SECOND
100
These paragraphs describe points of law at the beginning of a case.
What are headnotes?
100
Cases from the district court of California are appealed to this Federal Court.
What is the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals?
100
This is the official reporter for New York Court of Appeals decisions.
What is the New York Reports?
100
This is the official reporter for United States Supreme Court cases.
What is the United States Reports?
100
This secondary authority will survey the law nationwide.
What is American Law Reports?
200
These numbers are used to identify points of law when shepardizing and appear at the beginning of a case in an unofficial reporter.
What are headnote numbers?
200
Cases appearing in this reporter are binding on lower federal courts in the same circuit.
What is the Federal Reporter?
200
This reporter contains decisions from several states within the same geographical area?
What is a regional reporter?
200
This is an unofficial reporter for United States Supreme Court cases.
What is the Supreme Court Reporter (or the United States Supreme Court Reports, Lawyer's Edition)?
200
This secondary authority is written by scholars in the filed, is very persuasive, and can be cited to a court
What is a treatise?
300
This finding tool is used to locate cases in other jurisdictions on the same topic.
What topics and key numbers.
300
Thirteen
What is the number of Federal Circuit Courts?
300
This reporter contains decisions from the federal circuit courts of appeals.
What is the Federal Reporter?
300
The bluebook mandates that this reporter be cited when citing to U.S. Supreme Court cases.
What is U.S.?
300
This secondary authority should never be cited to a court.
What is an encyclopedia?
400
Use this citatory on Lexis to find more cases and determine if a case is still good law.
What is Shepard's?
400
When you see this cite, you know the case is from the Federal District Court?
What is F. Supp.?
400
Two or more citations to the same case.
What are parallel cites?
400
The Supreme Court refuses to hear a case?
What is certiorari denied?
400
This secondary authority purports to describe the "common law" for specific areas of law.
What is the Restatement?
500
This citatory is on Westlaw and is used to locate more cases and to determine if a case is still good law.
What is Key Cite?
500
Federal cases interpreting federal statutory law can be found in this annotated code.
What is the United States Code Annotated or the United States Code Service?
500
These reporters contain decisions from all the courts in the state of New York.
What is the New York Supplement?
500
This loose leaf service contains decisions of the United States Supreme Court.
What is the United States Law Week?
500
N.Y. Jur. 2d
What is New York Jurisprudence, second series (a New York encyclopedia)?
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