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Cases
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Secondary Sources
Electronic Searching
Citators
100
Name of the West regional reporter where Utah cases are published?
What is the Pacific Reporter?
100
Publication where you can find Utah's laws with no editorial enhancements (reference to relevant primary and secondary sources).
What is Utah Code Unannotated?
100
Corpus Juris Secondum and Am.Jur.2d are examples of this type of secondary source.
What are legal encyclopedias?
100
An Internet search engine besides Google?
What is Yahoo, Ask, etc.
100
What a red flag next to a case means on Westlaw.
What is the case has been overturned on at least one point of law?
200
Legal research database that attorneys have access to as a member of the Utah Bar.
What is Casemaker?
200
Two annotated codes containing the laws passed by the federal government.
What is U.S.C.A. and U.S.C.S.?
200
Library catalogs will help you find this type of useful item.
What are books and treatises?
200
What you would do if you were not finding helpful information after running a quick Google search?
What is look at more results than the first page or run a search in a different search engine?
200
Two reason why you might want to use a citator.
What are to make sure a case "is good law" and "to find other sources on the same topic"?
300
Way to determine if you can cite to an unpublished decision in a pleading you are submitting to court.
What is check the court rules of the jurisdiction?
300
The number of times Utah Code Ann. §77-22-2 has been amended based upon the history found at the end of the section: History: C. 1953, 77-22-2, enacted by L. 1980, ch 15, §2; 1988, ch. 101, §5; 1989, ch. 123, § 1;1990, ch. 217, § 1; 1993, ch. 38, §92; 2000, ch. 223, §1; 2008, ch. 382, §2199; 2009, ch. 6, §1.
What is seven?
300
Courts often respect this secondary source compilation of common law rules as nearly as authoritative as court decisions.
What are Restatements?
300
Two ways to search by concept on Lexis or Westlaw.
What is headnote searching / book browsing / Table of Contents searching / Index searching?
300
Name of the citator on Bloomberg Law.
What is BCite?
400
Six databases that contain full text Utah cases.
What is Lexis, Westlaw, Versuslaw, Casemaker, GoogleScholar, Utah Court website?
400
Name of the official publication containing federal session laws.
What is Statutes at Large?
400
The only database that contains the complete run of law review articles going back to vol. 1.
What is Hein Online?
400
What you would do if you were in an unfamiliar database and wanted to type in the most effective search you could.
What is check for "help", "search tips", etc. around the search box?
400
Four ways you can narrow your citing decisions when KeyCiting or Shepardizing a case.
What is by date, headnote number, jurisdiction, keyword search, depth of discussion?
500
Name of database where you can find docket information for Utah state trial court cases.
What is Utah Courts Xchange?
500
Number of titles (representing legal topics) in the United States Code.
What is 52?
500
Scott on Trusts is an example of this.
What is a multi-volume treatise?
500
Name of the function this symbol (!) performs when running a boolean search on Lexis and Westlaw.
What is a root expander?
500
The reason why Roe v. Wade has a red flag next to it on Westlaw and a yellow flag next to it on Lexis.
What is different editors of each company determine what symbols to assign to a case?