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Lesson 14 · Chapter 14, Cases

Cases: a label and an address


A 10-minute video lesson on Chapter 14, Cases of The Citation Code, with two pause-and-practice exercises.

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What you will be able to do

  1. Read and build a full case citation, element by element: name, volume, reporter, first page, pinpoint, court and year.
  2. Get the parts students most often miss right: the court-and-year parenthetical, the case name, court-numbered and slip-opinion forms.
  3. Add later history and opinion labels, and keep permission to cite apart from precedential weight.

Read the chapter: Chapter 14, Cases

Lesson 14: Cases: a label and an address — The Citation Code