Legal Research
This branch of government creates statutes.
What is the legislative branch?
S.W.3d is an example of this.
What is a case reporter?
A syllogism represents this kind of logic or analysis.
What is deductive?
"By zombies" is a great way to detect this sentence structure.
What is passive voice?
These kinds of rules are directly stated in a court opinion or statute
What are express rules?
These kinds of cases are found in the Federal Reporter.
What are federal appellate decisions?
A subsection of a statute and a specific page number in a case are examples of this.
What is a pinpoint or a pincite?
Lawyers use case illustrations for this kind of logic or analysis.
What is analogical?
This intensifier should be omitted from every lawyer's vernacular.
What is "clearly"?
This verb tense should be used for stating rules.
What is present tense?
This kind of authority is a great place to start research.
What is a secondary source?
This latin word is always abbreviated and followed by a period.
What is idem?
This is the legal writing paradigm used in LARC I.
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This verb tense should be used for facts and case illustrations
What is past tense?
This is the part of a court's opinion that usually contains implicit rules.
What is the reasoning?
This tab on Westlaw identifies cases that have interpreted a specific statute.
What is the Notes of Decisions tab?
This is the official reporter for federal statutes.
What is the U.S.C. (United States Code)?
This kind of legal test requires a party to prove every part
What is an elements test?
If you see this phrase at the beginning of a sentence, you should delete it.
What is "it is [blank] that"?
This is the order in which rules should appear in legal analysis
What is broad to narrow?
This Westlaw citator indicates that the current authority is no longer good authority for at least one point of law
What is a red flag or a red-striped flag?
These abbreviations are always included for Missouri appellate courts under local rules.
What are the district abbreviations (e.g., E.D., W.D., or S.D.)?
These are the kinds of facts that should be included in the facts section of an objective analysis.
What are legally relevant and contextual facts?
This grammatical error can lead to the unfortunate shooting of a pajama-clad elephant.
What is a misplaced modifier?
These kinds of rules may be stated broadly, narrowly, or neutrally
What are implicit rules?