Legal Research Tutorials: Cases Tutorials

You will learn about basic court structure and the concept of precedent, how cases are published and how to interpret their citations, and how to find and update cases through full-text search, headnotes, and citators.

This tutorial is divided into five main parts:

1. Understanding court structure and the concept of precedent
2. Case citation, publication, and composition
3. Searching for cases:
   1. General search tips
   2. In Lexis+
   3. In Westlaw Edge
4. Using headnotes and key numbers to find related cases
5. Using citators to check for current case treatment and to find related cases

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