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Legal citations are sometimes confusing to beginning legal researchers.
However, once you understand how they are put together, you can find just about any
published case in our collection without any assistance.
In short, every reporter citation has three component parts which are always given in
the same order:
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Name of Reporter Title |
Beginning Page Number |
Reporters are simply books which publish court cases or opinions in serial
fashion (i.e. in an ongoing series of volumes). To assist legal researchers in locating court
opinions, most legal publishers will give you citations to all the standard sources:
You only need to look at one of these cites since they include the same opinion on the same case when they are strung together in this manner. In the first example, you could look at any one of three books. In the second, either one of two books.
Below is a list of abbreviations for most of the standard reporters found in the Reference Law
Collection.
Law Tools/Reporters Collection
1st Floor, East Wing
Abbreviation
Name
Call Number
A
Atlantic Reporter
Try Lexis Nexis Academic
or the MSU College of Law Library
ALR
American Law Reports
Available at the MSU College of Law Library
ALR Fed
American Law Reports, Federal
Available at the MSU College of Law Library
Cal. Rptr.
West's California Reporter
Try Lexis Nexis Academic
or the MSU College of Law Library
F
Federal Reporter
Try Lexis Nexis Academic
or the MSU College of Law Library
FRD
Federal Rules Decisions
Try MSU College of Law Library
F.S. or F.Supp.
Federal Supplement
Try Lexis Nexis Academic
or the MSU College of Law Library
L.Ed.
U.S. Reports, Lawyers' Edition
KH .U558 S82
Mich
Michigan Reports
Try Lexis Nexis Academic
or the MSU College of Law Library
MichApp
Michigan Appeals Reports
Try Lexis Nexis Academic
or the MSU College of Law Library
N.E.
Northeastern Reporter
Try Lexis Nexis Academic
or the MSU College of Law Library
N.W.
Northwestern Reporter
Try Lexis Nexis Academic
or the MSU College of Law Library
N.Y.S.2d
New York Supplement, 2d Series
Try Lexis Nexis Academic
or the MSU College of Law Library
P
Pacific Reporter
Try Lexis Nexis Academic
or the MSU College of Law Library
S
Southern Reporter
Try Lexis Nexis Academic
or the MSU College of Law Library
S.C. or S.Ct.
Supreme Court Reporter
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or the MSU College of Law Library
S.E.
Southeastern Reporter
Try Lexis Nexis Academic
or the MSU College of Law Library
S.W.
Southwestern Reporter
Try Lexis Nexis Academic
or the MSU College of Law Library
U.S.
United States Reports
KH .U558 S82
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