The American Digest System was developed to help attorneys check the status of cases to determine its value as precedent so that attorneys would not be as likely to cite a case to a judge that had been overruled by a more recent case.

A writ of certiorari is a written order of an appellate court with discretionary jurisdiction (usually the highest court) stating that it chooses to review a lower court decision and the writ directs the lower court to produce its records for review.

The final decision that a trial court enters into its records is the Judgment or Final Decree.

The U.S.C. is fully annotated.

The unofficial reporter for the United States Supreme Court originally published by Lawyer’s Co-Op, and containing in depth annotations for each case is the

The United States Supreme Court Digest corresponds to which publishing company’s reporter?

Legal researchers usually need to refer to _________, a version of the Constitution containing case summaries of how the courts have interpreted the Constitution.

The United States Code Annotated, originally published by Lawyers’ Co-op/Lexis, and the United States Code Service, originally published by West are both unofficial sources of federal statutory codes.

Selected opinions from federal district courts are published in the Federal Supplement.

The Topic and Key Number System is the index to the entire National Reporter System.