Cases
The percentage of U.S. Supreme Court cases that are published.
What is 100%?
Statutes are created by this branch of government.
What is the Legislative Branch?
How many secondary sources we should always start our research with.
What is two?
A terms & connectors search that would find the word legal within the same sentence as the word research.
What is legal /s research?
Published First Circuit cases are binding on all district courts in which circuit?
What is the First Circuit?
This is the last resort for finding a statute.
What is full text searching?
What we use to find major treatises and practice guides that are available at UCI Law.
What is the Treatise Guide?
What are quotes or quotation marks?
Unpublished federal cases can be cited if they were decided after this date.
What is January 1, 2007?
Federal codes are codified in this official publication.
What is the United States Code?
California Jurisprudence and American Jurisprudence are examples of this type of secondary source.
What are legal encyclopedias?
Use this connector to find your search term a certain number of times within the document.
What is ATLEAST?
Unpublished federal cases are in this reporter.
What is the Federal Appendix?
The Statutes at Large include this legislative material.
What are session laws?
This California-specific treatise is often used like a legal encyclopedia to begin California research.
What is Witkin?
What is alum!?
The Ninth Circuit is bound by what court when deciding a question on California state law?
What is the California Supreme Court?
Statutes can be overturned or repealed by all branches of the government except for this branch.
What is the Executive Branch?
What secondary sources should help us find that can be cited.
What is the primary law or primary sources?
Use these connectors to find cases or documents without a certain word or phrase
What is AND NOT (Lexis) or % (Westlaw)?