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Kind of Material 'Used 
B. Judicial decisions: 
official reports for 
single jurisdictions: 
1. Scope of official re- 
ports. 
2. Relation of official 
series to prior pri- 
vate' reports. 
3. Multiple series for 
a single state. 
4. Numbers of Vol- 
umes in official 
series. 
C . Judicial decisions: 
nation-wide reporter 
systems: 
D. Judicial decisions: 
digests, citators, and 
other finding appara- 
tus: 
Operation Involved 
Determine what portion 
of a state’s judicial re- 
ports, is covered by the 
official series. 
Determine whether the 
official serial numbering 
goes back to the begin- 
ning, or to what period. 
Discriminate the several 
series, in a- single state, as 
to the different courts. 
Determine, approx- 
imately, the modernness 
of a given official volume 
by the serial number. 
a. Locate cases. given by 
title in the proper series 
and volume of the princi- 
pal systems. 
b. Translate into one sys- 
tem citations given in 
another^system. 
(For further subdivisions, 
reference is made to Mr. 
Daly’s course on the re- 
porter systems.) 
a. Use the various find- 
ing apparatus to find de- 
sired authorities on a 
particular point. 
Example Test for 
Operation 
Does the official series 
cover all reports since 
the beginning, in Illinois, 
New York, Massa- 
chusetts, Connecticut? 
If not, how much? 
In the following states, 
does the current serial 
numbering begin after 
the private reporters, or 
does it include the pri- 
vate reporters in its 
total? If the former, 
about what period did 
the official numbering be- 
gin? If the latter, what 
is the first official number 
that is used in the series 
— Massachusetts, New 
York, South Carolina. 
In the following states, 
are there separate official 
series for different higher 
courts — Illinois, Wiscon- 
sin, Oklahoma, Texas? 
What is the current high- 
est number in Indiana, 
Illinois, Massachusetts, 
New York? 
