Legal Research
This database, commonly used by law students and attorneys, provides access to federal and state cases, statutes, regulations, and legal scholarship.
What is Westlaw?
In this state, it is illegal to throw a snowball unless the snowball is being thrown as part of a permitted activity.
What is Colorado?
An attorney asks a witness, "Isn't it true that you were angry with the defendant that night?" The opposing attorney objects because the question suggests the desired answer.
What is leading?
This 1954 Supreme Court case unanimously held that racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
A young fashion student gets into Harvard Law, discovers her ex-boyfriend's new girlfriend is her legal rival, and eventually becomes a successful attorney.
What is Legally Blonde?
This citation system is the standard style guide used by most U.S. law reviews and is infamous among law students for its detailed rules.
What is The Bluebook?
In this state, it is illegal to whistle underwater.
What is Vermont?
An attorney asks a witness, "What did your neighbor tell you happened at the crime scene?" The opposing attorney immediately objects.
What is hearsay?
After being arrested and interrogated, Ernesto's case led the Supreme Court to establish the requirement that suspects be informed of certain constitutional rights.
What is Miranda v. Arizona?
A young man with a photographic memory practices law despite never attending law school, while working for one of New York's most prestigious attorneys.
What is Suits?
In a legal research assignment, this source contains the actual text of a court's decision and is considered primary authority.
What is a judicial opinion?
In this state, you can face a fine for wearing a disguise in public unless you're participating in a specific event such as Halloween.
What is Alabama?
During cross-examination, an attorney asks the same question for the fourth time after the witness has already answered it.
What is asked and answered?
This 1966 Supreme Court case established that defendants who cannot afford an attorney have the right to appointed counsel in felony cases.
Gideon v. Wainwright.
An inexperienced lawyer from Brooklyn travels to Alabama to defend his cousin and his cousin's friend after they are accused of murder.
What is My Cousin Vinny?
When writing a case brief, this section explains the legal rule established or applied by the court.
What is the rule/holding?
In this state, it is illegal to sell a car on Sunday.
What is New Jersey?
An attorney tells the jury during closing arguments, "If you acquit this defendant, you're putting every innocent person in this city at risk!"
What is argumentative?
This Supreme Court case established that courts have the authority to declare an act of Congress unconstitutional, establishing the principle of judicial review.
What is Marbury v. Madison?
Twelve jurors must determine whether a teenage defendant is guilty of murdering his father, with one juror refusing to immediately vote guilty.
What is 12 Angry Men?
A law review article that analyzes and critiques an area of law is considered this type of legal scholarship, rather than primary authority.
What is secondary authority?
In this state, it is illegal to have a donkey sleep in your bathtub.
What is Arizona?
An attorney asks a witness, "And then you watched the defendant stab the victim, correct?" even though the witness has never testified that they actually saw the stabbing.
What is assuming facts not in evidence?
This 1976 Supreme Court case established that a defendant's constitutional right to counsel generally does not include the right to have a particular lawyer of their choosing appointed by the court.
What is Morris v. Slappy?
A defense attorney discovers that his seemingly innocent client may actually be responsible for the crime he is accused of and possibly an earlier murder
What is The Lincoln Lawyer?