Cases must be publishedto become case law. A published case is also called ajudicial opinion. This book exposes you to many judicial opinions that you have the option of reading on the Internet. It is essential to understand the meaning of thecase citation. The case citation is the series of numbers and letters after the title of the case and it denotes the case’s published location. For example, let’s analyze the case citation for Keelerv.SuperiorCourt, 470 P.2d 617 (1970).
As you can see from the diagram, the number 470 is the volume number of the book that published the Keelercase. The name of that book is “P.2d” (this is an abbreviation forPacific Reports,2dSeries). The number 617 is the page number of the Keelercase. The date (1970) is the date the California Supreme Court ruled on the case.
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