Cases
Cases are this kind of legal authority.
What is primary authority?
This official set contains the codified laws of the United States.
What is the United States Code?
This official publication contains the codified regulations of the federal administrative agencies.
What is the Code of Federal Regulations (C.F.R.)?
A source in which you would find scholarly articles on recent legal topics most likely on a narrow issue of law.
What is a law review or journal?
The short numbered paragraphs, highlighting the points of law in an opinion, written by West editors and found at the beginning of cases in West reporters in print and on Westlaw.
What are headnotes?
The type of authority of a Michigan Supreme Court decision in the Illinois Supreme Court.
What is persuasive authority?
These two unofficial sets contain the laws as found in the United States Code, PLUS case summaries and citations to secondary sources.
What are the United States Code Annotated (U.S.C.A.) and the United States Code Service (U.S.C.S.)?
This official publication contains proposed and final regulations of federal administrative agencies in chronological order.
What is the Federal Register?
A source where you could find .pdf typeset page images of law review articles.
What is HeinOnline?
Publisher known for its practitioner-oriented handbooks on Illinois law, which are recognizable by their black paperbound or spiral-bound books.
What is IICLE (or Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education)?
Used in online "Terms and Connectors" searching for locating terms within the same sentence.
What is /s?
Tool used to locate a statute if you only have its name (e.g., Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act).
What is the "Popular Name Table"?
Legislation that defines the scope of an agency's mission and empowers it to perform its functions.
What is enabling legislation or an enabling act?
This legal dictionary is generally seen as the most authoritative of its kind.
What is Black's Law Dictionary?
This source restates the common law doctrines on a subject using the rules in a majority of jurisdictions.
What are the Restatements?
Names of the citators for Westlaw and Lexis.
What are KeyCite and Shepard's?
When a federal statute is first published, it is identified by this number.
What is its Public Law Number?
A currently updated, free, online unofficial version of the Code of Federal Regulations.
What is the e-CFR?
Corbin on Contracts and Prosser and Keeton on the Law of Torts are examples of this type of secondary source.
What is a treatise?
The number of the federal circuit court that includes Illinois.
What is 7 or 7th?
Citations to the same case opinion from different reporters are called this.
What are parallel citations?
This official set contains the text of federal statutes, as passed, in chronological order (by session of Congress).
What is the United States Statutes at Large?
825 in 29 C.F.R. ยง 825.112 (2015).
What is the part number?
One of the two commercially published Illinois-specific legal encyclopedia sets.
What is Illinois Law & Practice or Illinois Jurisprudence?
The 37th law passed during the 115th Congress.
What is Pub. L. No. 115-37?