This is the acronym for the basic structure of legal analysis.
What is TREACC? (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?
100
These provide an argumentative outline for the brief.
What are point headings?
100
Constitutions, statutes, regulations, and cases.
What is Primary Law (or Primary Sources)?
100
This is the Part of the Bluebook most used by practitioners.
What are the Blue pages?
200
This can be synthesized from various primary sources or may be derived directly from the primary sources.
What is the rule statement?
200
The three parts of a case you should consider in deciding whether a case would be helpful to use in a memo or brief.
What are Jurisdiction/Facts/Issue?
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
A limited compilation of primary sources arranged by topics, an an excellent resource for research.
What is the ALR (American Law Reports)?
200
This is a very short way to refer to a prior citation of a single case.
What is Id.?
300
To inform the reader of the law and likely outcome.
What is the main purpose of an objective memo?
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: stating the question, generating search terms, outlining research strategy.
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 or cases explaining a rule.
What is a thesis sentence?
400
This source restates the common law doctrines on a subject using the rules in a majority of jurisdictions
What is the Restatement?
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 theory (or theme) of the case?
400
The case squibs or summaries following a statute or code provision.
What are annotations?
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
The order in which you want to present rules of law.
What is from broad or general to narrow or specific?
500
The short numbered paragraphs, highlighting the points of law in an opinion, written by West editors and found at the beginning of cases in print in West reporters, and online in Westlaw.
What are headnotes?
500
Virtually every first sentence of each paragraph in a brief.
What is a contention?
500
These books contain the entire body of federal regulations.
What is the Code of Federal Regulations?
500
This is where you look in the Bluebook to find out how to cite to cases and statutes in various jurisdictions.