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Digests and Finding Case Law


Case Law Research in Print - Texas State Law Library

The digest system is a way of finding cases based on subject matter. Digests are arranged by topic and key number. The section for each key ...

Summer Associate Research Guide: Research Caselaw Using Digests

Step 1: Determine Your Starting Point · Step 2: Choose the Proper Digest · Step 3: Find Relevant Cases Using Topic and Keynumber System.

Digests - Court Reporters - Website at University of Washington Law ...

Court opinions are published in sets called reporters. Digests are tools that help researchers locate cases on specific legal topics or issues.

Digest Searching with West's Topic & Key Number System - YouTube

Intro to Legal Research 2022: Digest Searching with West's Topic & Key Number System ... How to Present Your Case In Court. The Justice Center• ...

The Relevance of Digest and Citator Results in Westlaw and Lexis ...

The lawyer has been told that the key Supreme. Court case in this area is Regents v. Bakke. While not every research project involves finding.

Important Research Tips - Case Law Research - Guides at Texas ...

Determining "Good Law" ... Before you rely on a case in your legal proceeding, you should check to make sure that it is still "good law." That ...

Finding Case Law | The Maryland People's Law Library

Case law is made up of the published opinions of a court on a particular case. Opinions are written explanations of why the judges decided the case the way ...

HOW TO FIND CASES - Westlaw

Write down the relevant topics and key numbers from the case and find them in the digest and pocket parts. ... You can also easily search Westlaw case law ...

J. Accessing Case Law

If you need to find a particular case, one would look in the TABLE OF CASES of the appropriate digest. The major caselaw computer systems, such as Lexis ...

Digests

• Find digest dedicated to case reporter. • Locate topic and key numbers in ... – Cites to case law discussing statute. – Description of how case law has.

Chapter 7: Researching Canadian Case Law Online

But they provide a basis for classifying cases based on the legal issues they address, which can make it easier to find cases on point. A case digest database, ...

Digest of the case-law - Court of Justice of the European Union

The Répertoire de jurisprudence (Digest of case-law) is a systematic collection of the summaries of judgments and orders of the Court of Justice, ...

Ch.5 Locating Cases Through Digests, Annotated Law Reports, and ...

An amazingly thorough set of books that aims at citing and digesting every reported case so you can readily locate all cases on a given area of law.

How to find and use case law: Introduction - LibGuides

A digest is a publication which contains summaries of cases. Digests can be a useful way of finding and checking the status of a case. They may ...

How To Case Digest : r/LawStudentsPH - Reddit

Basically, it's determining what facts are relevant to the issue/legal concept (and what are not). It (ideally) gets better with practice.

Digest and Articles of Equal Employment Opportunity Law

... court cases, as they affect Federal government employees. Commission Federal ... Search the Digest (optional). Enter keywords and click "Search" to find ...

Finding Cases by Headnote - Researching Case Law

Overview · Headnotes in Print · Headnotes in Westlaw · Headnotes in Lexis · CALI Lesson on How to Find Case Law Using Digests · Videos -- Using ...

How to Research a Legal Problem: A Guide for Non-Lawyers - AALL

Digests are the traditional means of finding cases. West Publishing Co. publishes digests for federal jurisdictions, most states, and several of the regions ...

Step 2: Primary Sources of Law: Canadian Case Law

Finding Case Law using Digests · A digest provides the most efficient means of locating cases as the editors of these digests have summarized, reviewed and ...

West Digest System - Thurgood Marshall School of Law

The digest arranges these summaries, called Headnotes, topically so that once you find a case on point you can easily find other cases. The Headnotes include ...