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| Statutes passed by Congress/state Legislature. |
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| Regulation promulgated by agencies. |
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| Which print source has the most U.S. Supreme Court opinions published weekly? |
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| Which print source has the most recent Texas Supreme Court opinions published weekly? |
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| Identify the reporter in which most federal district court decisions are published. |
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| Identify the reporter in which most federal appeals court decisions are published. |
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| Identify the reporter in which Texas cases are published currently. |
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| What is the highest Texas state court with jurisdiction over criminal matters? |
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| Texas Court of Criminal Appeals |
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| What is the highest Texas state court with jurisdiction over civil matters? |
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| Which publication has summaries of cases from the jurisdiction is covers? For example, in Texas, this publication covers both Texas state court and Texas federal court cases? |
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| Name the publication containing a chronological compilation of federal statutes. |
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| United States Statutes at Large |
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| Which publication of federal statutes is published by West and will generally give you the most comprehensive set of case annotations? |
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| Where would you look to find current effective federal regulations arranged by subject matter? |
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| If you would like to find cases that have interpreted the meaning of a specific word, which volume in the digests would you go to? |
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| Name one unofficial reporter for the United States Supreme Court. |
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| Which service will tell you whether a case you are relying on was reversed on appeal or overruled in a later case? |
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| Shepard’s & KeyCite (Citators) |
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| When you are quoting a source, at what point must you block quote the quotation according to the Bluebook? |
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| What word describes the “court’s judgment plus the material facts of the case.” |
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| What word describes the “statements in a judicial opinion that are not part of the holding and not binding on later courts.” |
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| What is the name of the current pamphlets containing the most recently reported opinions of a court or the courts of several jurisdictions? These pamphlets are found after the hardbound volumes of the reporter and will eventually be bound into a hardbound volume. They are published weekly. |
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| An opinion rendered by a court at the request of the government or an interested party that indicates how the court would rule on a matter should adversary litigation develop. Not binding. |
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| Means "friend of the court" |
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| A legislative proposal introduced in a legislature. The term distinguishes unfinished legislation from enacted law. |
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| A form of search strategy used in databases such as westlaw and lexis. Connectors such as AND, OR, and NOT are used to construct a complex search command. |
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| A session in which the entire bench of the court will participate in the decision rather than the regular quorum. |
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| brief summary of the legal rule or significant facts in a case that precedes the printed opinion in reports. |
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| Authority that a given court is bound to follow. |
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| An online database strategy using normal english-language sentences or phrases instead of boolean commands. |
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| A citation reference to the same case printed in two or more different reports. |
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| Literally "by the court" Usually a short opinion written on behalf of the majority of the court but whose author is not identified. It may be accompanied by concurring or dissenting opinions. |
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| A law or reasoning which a given court may, but is not bound to, follow |
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| A table listing popular names by which certain cases or statutes have becomes known, and identifying for each popular name the official name and citation of the case or statutue |
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Systematic restatements of the existing common law in certain areas, published by the ALI since 1923. They are valuable secondary sources, but not binding law.
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| A legislative enactment published in pamphlet or single sheet for immediately after its passage. |
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| Law enacted by a legislature that are published in bound or pamphlet volumes after adjournment of each regular special session. |
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| A scheme in unofficial print and electronic editions of court reports used to show where the pages of the text of the official edition begin and end. |
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| the official compilation of acts passed by the U.S. Congress. The arrangement is currently by Public Law Number. |
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The parties to a lawsuit as they are written in the heading at the beginning of a written court document. Also known as caption of case.
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| Which secondary source covers topics frequently encountered in practice, describes black letter law in “annotations,” and highlights differences in law from jurisdiction to jurisdiction? |
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| Texas’s intermediate level of state courts. Fourteen courts are located in Texas. |
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| The official code for federal law. |
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| A secondary source organized by topic, then section, which provides an overview of legal topics nationally with footnotes citing primary authority. |
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| In print volumes, a tool for supplementing the text until the volume is republished in another hard-bound volume. |
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| A legal encyclopedia published by West. Its approach is to be "a contemporary statement of American law as derived from reported cases and legislation" |
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| Information embodied in bills, commitee reports, floor debates, congressional testimoney (i.e., legislative documents and other materials) that provides background information and insight into the purpose of intended statutes. |
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| General name for the middle tier of the federal courts, which are divided up geographically into 11 numbered circuits plus the D.C. and Fed. Courts. |
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| Annotations (Notes of Decision) |
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| Brief summaries of the law and facts of cases interpreting statutes passed by congress or state legislatures that are compiled into codes. |
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| How many levels of federal courts? |
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| holding of the court in which the opinion is very concise |
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| What happened to the same case before or after ---reversed, affirmed, modified, cert. denied. |
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| What other decisions or secondary works have said about your case - cas has been followed, distinguished, or overruled. |
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