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Citations
100
Searching in this source will not give you annotated statutes or cases.
What is Google?
100
Cases and statutes provide us with these for our legal analysis.
What are rules?
100
You should always use this at the beginning of your discussion section.
What is a Roadmap?
100
This is the voice you want to edit out of your legal writing, for the most part.
What is passive voice?
100
This is something you always underline or italicize.
What is the case name?
200
This is the first filter you will use to narrow a search on Westlaw or Lexis.
What is jurisdiction?
200
This is raised when we attempt to apply law to facts.
What is a legal issue.
200
When stating rules, this should be stated in the citation, not in the rule sentence.
What is the source of the rule?
200
You should always edit your paper to eliminate these simple common problems.
What are spelling errors and typos?
200
This source should not be underlined in a citation.
What is a statute?
300
Use this to determine if your case or statute is still good law.
What is a citator (or Shepard's or KeyCite)?
300
These are the facts used in the court's holding and/or reasoning that we want to analogize to our client's facts.
What are the critical facts?
300
Your memo should always be organized around these.
What are the legal rules?
300
When editing, you want to be sure that your sentences and paragraphs do this so the reader can easily follow your analysis.
What is Dovetail?
300
This citation form can only be used when citing to the same single source cited in the prior citation.
What is Id.
400
Organize your research notes by these.
What are the legal issues?
400
Use this when comparing your client's facts to a precedent case.
What is an explicit (factual) analogy?
400
This is the formula we have been all semester using to write a discussion section of a memo.
What is CRAC or IRAC or CREACC, etc.? (Any acronym will do.)
400
When editing, check your analysis to ensure that you have not varied these between your rule statement, explanation, and application.
What are legal terms of art or the exact words of the legal rules?
400
One should use this page number for almost every case citation.
What is a pincite?
500
Use this function on Westlaw (or by another name on Lexis) to find cases with the same legal issue.
What is Key Search or the Key Number System (on Westlaw) or Legal Issue trail (on Lexis)?
500
A decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit is what kind of authority for a District Court in the First Circuit?
What is persuasive authority?
500
You should always use this when introducing a case explanation.
What is a Hook?
500
Be sure you use this format with quotations of 50 words or more.
What is a blockquote?
500
This is the place in the Bluebook where you you will the correct citation format for each state's courts and statutes.
What is Table 1.