This citator, now commercially available through LexisNexis, provides all the citing references to a case.
What is Shepard's?
100
After a case is decided, it is published in print in this format first.
What is a slip opinion?
100
This is the name of a free, government-run database that helps you find medical literature.
What is PubMed?
100
This source, published by West, provides you with sample forms and procedural guidance for practicing law in New Jersey.
What is New Jersey Practice?
100
This database provides full-text PDF of the full-run of law reviews and many bar journals.
What is HeinOnline?
200
This type of code provides references to both primary and secondary sources in addition to the text of statutes.
What is an annotated code?
200
This is a series of books collecting the published cases within a given jurisdiction.
What is a reporter?
200
This is the name of subject heading system that is used to categorize the medical literature found in PubMed and Ovid Medline.
What is MeSH or 'Medical Subject Headings'?
200
This publication offers "annotations" that provide detailed analyses on various legal topics, and also include references to cases and statutes from all American jurisdictions.
What is ALR or American Law Reports?
200
The highest appellate court in New York State.
What is the Court of Appeals?
300
The publication includes proposed and final regulations.
What is the Federal Register?
300
This type of authority comes from another jurisdiction. It used in court memoranda often when the legal issue at hand is one of first impression, and the court may want to look to other jurisdictions for guidance.
What is controlling authority?
300
This type of study is best type of medical evidence.
What is a meta-analysis?
300
This type of source, available in binders or electronically, contain a goldmine of information including cases, administrative decisions, analysis, and legal news.
What is a looseleaf?
300
The two areas of law that the US PTO govern?
What are patent & trademarks?
400
This web site, operated by Cornell Law school, provides access to federal statutes, state statutes, regulations, court rules, uniform laws, and a legal encyclopedia at no cost to the user.
What is the Legal Information Institute?
400
This system devised by West categorizes all American legal doctrine into topic, subtopics, and numbers. It has be designed to help researchers find cases on their topic with greater ease.
What is West Key Number System?
400
This is an approach to practicing medicine in which the clinician is aware of the evidence in support of clinical practice, and the strength of that evidence. This approach combines clinical knowledge of the patient, with evidence from the literature.
What is evidence-based medicine?
400
This source, published by the American Law Institute, provides concise articulations of the black-letter laws of a particular topic.
What are the Restatements?
400
This is the term given to legislation that empowers an agency to regulate a certain area of the law.
What is enabling legislation or statutory authority?
500
This finding aid helps you find where an act is codified in the code.
What is a popular name table?
500
This type of publication organizes case summaries from a certain jurisdiction alphabetically, by topic.
What is a digest?
500
This is an organization whose purpose is to improve healthcare decision-making globally, through systematic reviews of the effects of healthcare interventions
What is the Cochrane Collaboration?
500
This source, available in print and on Lexis, is an excellent to decode abbreviation.
What is Bieber's?
500
The Bluebook rule that governs the citation of administrative rules and regulations.