Secondary Sources
Resources containing brief articles on discrete legal topics. Am.Jur.2d and CJS are examples of this type of source.
What are Legal Encyclopedias?
The original legal citator that is now available on Lexis.
What is Shepard's?
A version of a statute that includes content and analysis, notes of decision, library references, and cross references to related law.
What is an annotated statute?
The official daily publication for federal rules, proposed rules, and final regulations. This resource was first published in in 1936.
What is the Federal Register?
Legal resources describing and explaining the law rather than containing the law.
What are Secondary Sources?
A legal research tool that allows you to search for legal periodicals using controlled vocabulary subject headings.
What is a legal periodical index?
The signal that appears at the top of a case on Westlaw when a case is no longer good law for at least one point of law.
What is a red flag?
Documents produced when a legislature is considering a bill. You can find these documents using ProQuest Congressional, Congress.gov, GovInfo, or Westlaw/Lexis.
What is legislative history?
The website publishing all proposed federal regulations and providing the public with an opportunity to comment on these regulations.
What is Regulations.gov?
The feature on Westlaw/Lexis allowing users to organize and save their research.
What are folders?
A secondary resource that helps you to stay current. [Three possible correct answers].
What are blogs/legal news/alerts?
A brief summary of a single point of law discussed in a case. These also appear as paragraphs in case digests.
What is a headnote?
The United States Code is divided into 54 of these by subject.
What are Titles?
A type of law that gives federal agencies the authority to make regulations.
What is enabling legislation?
The most comprehensive and easily searched source of free case law on the Internet. You can also get journal articles here.
What is Google Scholar?
A comprehensive and authoritative blog dedicated to covering and analyzing the activities of the Supreme Court of the United States.
What is SCOTUSblog?
The case reporter the Bluebook requires you to cite to when discussing Supreme Court cases.
What is United States Reports?
The laws as they are passed by a legislature. These laws are ordered chronologically by year and they have no subject organization.
What are session laws?
The subscription database containing all historical volumes of the Federal Register, the CFR, journal articles, and many agency opinions in PDF format.
What is Hein Online?
The best electronic database to use when searching for corporate transactional resources.
What is Bloomberg Law?
A legal news source that is frequently the only place to find certain New York State trial court opinions
What is the New York Law Journal?
The classification system breaking down the entire body of U.S. law into 400+ broad topics and 100,000+ narrow sub-topics.
What is the West Key Number system?
The body of law prepared by the Office of Law Revision Counsel of the United States House of Representatives.
What is the United States Code?
The unoffical - but most current - version of the Code of Federal Regulations.
What is e-CFR?
A "sheet" listing all of the proceedings and filings in a case. Sometimes hyperlinks allow you to access to underlying court documents.
What is a docket?