This is the acronym for the basic format or outline for presenting information in a memo.
What is CREACC? (Or IRAC, CRAC, etc.)
100
You might use this type of case when you have no relevant authority in your own jurisdiction.
What is persuasive authority from another jurisdiction?
100
This tells the reader what rules the court will use in deciding a motion.
What is the Procedural Standard?
100
This authority is comprised of constitutions, statutes, regulations, and cases.
What is Primary Authority?
100
This is the Part of the Bluebook most used by practitioners.
What is the Bluepages?
200
This must sometimes be synthesized from various relevant primary sources and must always be stated accurately.
What is the Rule of Law?
200
When choosing cases for case explanations/applications, you want to be sure this part of the opinion, not just the facts, applies to your case, as well as to the precedent case.
What is the reasoning?
200
If they are important, you must include these in your Statement of Facts, even if you don't want to.
What are negative or unfavorable facts?
200
Use this kind of searching to narrow your searches to find cases more specifically relevant to your case.
What is Boolean or "terms and connectors" searching?
200
This is a very short way to refer to an immediately prior citation of a single case.
What is Id.?
300
When applying a rule to the facts of your case, be careful to use these words.
What are the exact words of the rule?
300
When choosing cases for your explanation/application, you want to be sure these are analogous to your case.
What are the critical facts?
300
You should do this do when you are writing about an unfavorable case in a persuasive brief.
What is distinguishing the case?
300
The following are all components of this concept: state the question, generate search terms, choose a source to begin.
What is a research plan?
300
This is what you use to tell the reader where in a case the particular information you are discussing can be found.
What is a pincite (or a pinpoint citation)?
400
This is what you use to introduce a case explaining a rule.
What is a Hook?
400
These are four basic factors you look for when choosing among cases for your case Explanation/Application.
What are:
The same issue of law
Binding authority (from a higher court in your jurisdiction or the U.S. Supreme Court)
Recent case
Analogous critical facts
(Professor Sloane reserves the right to allow additional valid answers.)
400
This is something you should create about your case when writing persuasively to make the case come alive for your reader.
What is a theme or story?
400
This contains updated information for statutes and case digests when researching in paper.
What is a pocket part or supplement?
400
This is a good way to convey a lot about a case in just a phrase or a few words.
What is a parenthetical?
500
This is the order in which you want to present rules of law.
What is from broad or general to narrow or specific?
500
This is a broader concept you might use in your argument in addition to statutes and cases, if it is favorable to your client.
What is policy?
500
This is what you do when stating a rule that is unfavorable to your client in a persuasive memo.
What is re-stating the rule favorably or positively for your client (or shaping the rule from your client's viewpoint)?
500
These books contains acts of Congress as originally passed.
What are Session Laws?
500
This is where you look in the Bluebook to find out how to cite to cases and statutes in various jurisdictions.