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A set of books which provides the subsequent history of reported decisions through a form of abbreviations or words. Most widely used are Chopart's Citations.
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citators — A set of books which provide, through letterform abbreviations or words, the subsequent judicial history and interpretation of reported decisions. The citators also denote the legislative and amendment history, and cases that have cited or… … Black's law dictionary
citators — A set of books which provide, through letterform abbreviations or words, the subsequent judicial history and interpretation of reported decisions. The citators also denote the legislative and amendment history, and cases that have cited or… … Black's law dictionary
Citator — In legal research, a citator is a citation index of legal resources, one of the best known of which in the United States is Shepard s Citations. Given a reference of a legal decision, a citator allows the researcher to find newer documents which… … Wikipedia
Legal research in the United States — What is Legal Research? Legal research is the process of identifying and retrieving information necessary to support legal decision making. In its broadest sense, legal research includes each step of a course of action that begins with an… … Wikipedia
Citation index — A citation index is a kind of bibliographic database, an index of citations between publications, allowing the user to easily establish which later documents cite which earlier documents. The first citation indices were legal citators such as… … Wikipedia
Law library — Leo T. Kissam Memorial Library, the law library of the Fordham University School of Law, also a federal depository library … Wikipedia
California State Library — The California State Library collects, preserves, generates and disseminates a wide array of information. It was founded in 1850 by the California State Legislature. Today, it is the central reference and research library for state government and … Wikipedia
Shepard's Citations — In legal research, Shepard s Citations is the best known citator, a list of all the authorities citing a particular case, statute, or other legal authority. The name derives from a legal service begun by Frank Shepard (1848 1900) in 1873, when… … Wikipedia
Oxford Law Citator — logo The Oxford Law Citator, developed by Oxford University Press ( OUP ), is an example of an authority control system, used within legal research. The Oxford Law Citator provides and manages hypertext links between items published on OUP’s… … Wikipedia
secondary authority — Sources of information that describe or interpret the law, such as legal treatises, law review articles, and other scholarly legal writings, cited by lawyers to persuade a court to reach a particular decision in a case, but which the court is not … Law dictionary
