Question 1

Secondary sources include

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

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

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

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:

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.

Quiz 3: Secondary Sources and Finding Tools

Secondary sources include

Digests

Legal encyclopedias

American Law Reports

The following is true about digests: