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.

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Answered on 1/14/02, 4:34 pm


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