Question 1

Secondary sources include&#10;A) cases&#10;B) treatises, law review articles, and legal periodicals&#10;C) legal dictionaries, legal thesaurium, continuing education publications, and restatements&#10;D) b and c&#10;E) a, b, and c

Accepted Answer

Secondary sources include treatises, law review articles, legal periodicals, legal dictionaries, legal thesauri, continuing education publications, and restatements. Cases are primary sources. Therefore, the correct option is D, which includes only secondary sources.

Question 2

Digests&#10;A) are secondary authority&#10;B) contain case summaries and references to other research materials&#10;C) serve as indexes to cases and allow the researcher to locate the relevant&#10;D) b and c&#10;E) a, b, and c

Accepted Answer

Digests are secondary authority and contain case summaries and references to other research materials. They serve as indexes to cases and allow the researcher to locate the relevant information.

Question 3

Legal encyclopedias&#10;A) are primary authority&#10;B) include Corpus Juris Secundum and American Jurisprudence 2d&#10;C) rarely contain footnotes&#10;D) a and c&#10;E) a, b, and c

Accepted Answer

Legal encyclopedias include Corpus Juris Secundum and American Jurisprudence 2d. They are secondary authority, not primary authority, and they may contain footnotes, so option D and E are incorrect.

Question 4

American Law Reports&#10;A) contain selected cases&#10;B) contain textual explanations (called annotations) of the law&#10;C) are both a secondary source and a finding tool&#10;D) b and c&#10;E) a, b, and c

Accepted Answer

American Law Reports (ALR) contain selected cases, provide textual explanations of the law (annotations), and serve both as a secondary source of legal information and a tool for finding primary law, making all the given options correct.

Question 5

The following is true about digests:&#10;A) A federal digest may be used to find relevant cases decided by the federal courts&#10;B) A state digest may be used to find relevant cases decided by the courts of the state&#10;C) Digests are updated by annual pocket parts and by paperbound supplementary pamphlets.&#10;D) a and b&#10;E) a, b, and c

Accepted Answer

Digests are tools used to find cases on specific legal issues or topics. A federal digest helps locate cases decided by federal courts, while a state digest focuses on cases from a particular state's courts. They are regularly updated through annual pocket parts and supplementary pamphlets to include recent case law, making all the statements true.

Deck 3: Secondary Sources and Finding Tools