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| T or F: The United States Supreme Court Reports, Lawyers' Edition contains summaries of the briefs of counsel |
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| T or F: Parallel citations for an appellate court opinion may include citations to the trial court reporter series where thetrial court opinion is published |
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| T or F: Federal statues are arranged topically in the Stautes at Large |
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| T or F: The case summaries found in digests may be cited as primary authority |
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| T or F: Star paging is used in all volumes of all official and unofficial Supremem Court reporters |
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| T or F: The signal infra is used in legal memoranda and briefs to indicate the full citation for the case follows as a later point in the memorandum or brief |
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| T or F: Federal Supporter is the reporter in which recent federal trial court opinions are contained |
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| T or F: When a state's highest court elects to publish an official reporter, it must publish all cases decided by that court |
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| T or F: The American Digest System indexes and classifies all case law, both state and federal |
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| T or F: When researching a particular federal statute, the United States Code is the most useful source because it is an official publication |
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| T or F: The AmericanDigest System is sometimes called the Decennial Digest and uses the key number system |
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| T or F: The typical case reporter contains either a separate section or a separate volume devoted to a table of cases and a descriptive word index |
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| T or F: Indexing is the accepted process for checking the status of specific cases, while Shepardizing is used for checking the status of statutes |
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| T or F: The signal surpa is used in legal memoranda and briefs to refer to a case that has been cited in full previously |
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| T or F: Each state has both an official and an unofficial reporter series for the opinions of its highest state court |
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| T or F: American Jurisprudence Second and Corpus Juris Secundum are the two most legal encyclopedias in existence today |
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| T or F: A memorandum opinion is an opinion of the entire court, rather than an opinion written by a specific judge |
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| T or F: Digests are compilations of case law for a particular reported or a particular group of reporters |
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| T or F: Parallel citations generally are not provided for federal cases, but they are required for home state cases when parallel citations exist |
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| T or F: Within the Shepard's Citator volumes, the citations appreaing in parentheses indicate other cases that have overruled the case being researched |
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| T or F: The signal surpa is used in law review articles and other textual material (but not in legal memoranda and not in briefs) to indicate that the full citation for the case was given previously |
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| T or F: The case summaries found in digests may be cited as secondary authority |
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| T or F: The United States Code contains all federal stautory law enacted by Congress |
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| T or F: When an appellate judge disagrees with the result and with the reasoning of the majority opinion, but disagrees with the reasoning of the dissenting opinion as well, she may write an abstaining opinion. |
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