Legal Question in Civil Litigation in Michigan
Citations
How do I look up citations
Asked on 1/14/02, 3:32 pm
1 Answer from Attorneys
Regina Mullen
Legal Data Services, PLC
Re: Citations
What sort of citations?? You need to be a LOT clearer. I will assume you mean legal citations, not traffic citations.
Your best bet is to go to your local public law library. All Michigan public universities have one. Legal text cites are not easy to look up, and there are hundreds of different cites, so you should take your citation to the law librarian and ask.
Case law citations follow a basic format of Vol/Reporter/Page/Year However, a simple example is "401 U.S. 201 (1980)," which tells you that the cite refers to Page 201 of Volume 401 of the U.S. Supreme Court Reporter from 1980.
Answered on 1/14/02, 4:34 pm