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CASE LAW
Basic citation:
(case name) (vol) reporter abbreviation (page) (court & year) or (year only)
example:
Other examples
Official citation with parallel citations:
Ginsberg v New York 390 U.S., 629, 20 L.Ed 195, 88 S.Ct. 1274 (1968)
U.S. Court of Appeals decisions:
Brown vs Johnson 148 F.2d 318 (3rd cir. 1938)
U.S. Court of Appeals decisions:
Long v Wells 48 F. Supp 298 (N.D.Cal. 1947)
STATUTE LAW
United States Code
(U.S.C.)
Citation Form: (title number code abbreviation (section) (year)
Example:
ADMINISTRATIVE LAW
Federal Register: (Vol) FR or Fed. Reg. (page) (year)
Example: Code of Federal Regulations: (title number) C.F.R.( section)(part of section) (year)
Abbreviations of Many Case Law Reporting Sets
| A.L.R | American Law Reports |
| A.L.R.2d | American Law Reports, Second Series |
| A.L.R.3d | American Law Reports, Third Series |
| A2d | Atlantic Reporter, Second Series |
| Black | Black's Reports, U.S. |
| C.F.R | Code of Federal Regulations |
| C.J.S | Corpus Juris Secundum |
| Cranch | Cranch's Reports, U.S. |
| Dall | Dallas' Reports, U.S. |
| Fed. Reg. | Federal Register |
| F2d | Federal Reporter, Second Series |
| F3d | Federal Reporter, Third Series |
| F. supp | Federal Reporter Supplement |
| How. | Howard's Reports, U.S. |
| L.Ed | United States Reports, Lawyers Edition |
| L.Ed.2d | United States Reports, Lawyers Edition, Second Series |
| NE | Northeastern Reporter |
| Otto | Otto's Reports, U.S. |
| P | Pacific Reporter |
| P2d | Pacific Reporter, Second Series |
| Pet | Peters' Reports, U.S. |
| S.Ct. | Supreme Court Reporter |
| So | Southern Reporter |
| So2d | Southern Reporter, Second Series |
| U.S. | United States Reports |
| U.S.C. | United States Code |
| U.S.C.A. | United States Code Annotated |
| Wall | Wallace's Reports, U.S. |
| Wheat | Wheaton's Reports, U.S. |