1 / 0

West Key Number System

West Key Number System. Having Fun with the Digests!. Start with Cases. A court issues an opinion in a case. A copy of the case is obtained by West Editors read the cases and pick out the points of law addressed in the case.

majed
Download Presentation

West Key Number System

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. West Key Number System

    Having Fun with the Digests!
  2. Start with Cases A court issues an opinion in a case. A copy of the case is obtained by West Editors read the cases and pick out the points of law addressed in the case. Written as a short, concise paragraph, these are called headnotes.
  3. Headnotes One point of law for each Headnote. Each Headnote has a Key Number
  4. Headnotes Each Headnote will get a number before it like [1]
  5. Headnotes Each Headnote will get a number before it like [2] You can find what that Headnote is referring to by looking for the [#] in the body of the case. For example, if you hit [3], it will take you to the part of the decision where that rule is
  6. Key Numbers The Key Number System is big interactive outline that works like this: First, the American system of law is broken down into Major Topics there are more than 400, including things like: Civil Rights, Pretrial Procedure, and Criminal Law.
  7. Key Numbers Each of those topics is divided, in greater and greater detail, into individual units that represent a specific legal concept. like steps in an outline.
  8. Key Numbers Each of the lines (more than 80,000 of them) has a unique number that allows you to find it on the outline. This number is called a Key Number. The whole outline, along with the case headnotesclassified to it, is called the Key Number System. The Key Number System is found in the Digests. We use the New York Digests
  9. Scenarios Corpus Juris Secundum to Cases Cases to Better Cases
  10. Scenario 1 PROBLEM: What are the elements of negligence in New York? You want to find the New York elements of negligence You can either look in New York Cases or Corpus JurisSecundum (You can also look in New York Jurisprudence 2d Series)
  11. Corpus Juris Secundum (CJS) Elements of Negligence SEARCH TERMS AND CONNECTORS: Elements /s Negligence
  12. 1 3 2
  13. CJS You get 220 hits
  14. CJS What do you look for? You look for the topic of “Negligence” Scroll down
  15. CLICK HERE
  16. CJS What did you get? The essential elements for an action in negligence are that the defendant was under a duty to protect the plaintiff from injury, that the defendant breached that duty, that the plaintiff suffered actual injury or loss, and that the loss or injury proximately resulted from the defendant's breach of the duty.
  17. CJS The essential elements for an action in negligence are that: defendant was under a duty to protect the plaintiff from injury, defendant breached that duty, plaintiff suffered actual injury or loss, and loss or injury proximately resulted from the defendant's breach of the duty.
  18. CJS BINGO!
  19. CJS BINGO? No exactly Corpus Juris Secundum is a secondary source of law You need primary
  20. CJS CJS to Primary Two ways Footnotes Key Number
  21. CJS CJS to Primary Two ways Footnotes (there are no footnotes in this text) Key Number
  22. CJS CJS to Primary Two ways Footnotes (there are no footnotes in this text) Key Number
  23. CJS to Cases
  24. CJS to Cases
  25. CJS to Cases
  26. CJS to Cases
  27. CJS to Cases Click on the 202
  28. 105 Headnotes
  29. From the Most Recent
  30. Which Courts are these from?
  31. Which Courts are these from?
  32. Which Courts are these from? Appellate Division, Second Department, 2011
  33. Which Courts are these from?
  34. Which Courts are these from? Court of Claims, 2011
  35. Which Courts are these from?
  36. Which Courts are these from? Court of Appeals, 2011
  37. Which Courts are these from? Appellate Division, Second Department, 2011 Court of Claims, 2011 Court of Appeals, 2011
  38. Which one should you look at? Appellate Division, Second Department, 2011 Court of Claims, 2011 Court of Appeals, 2011
  39. LOOK FOR HIGHEST COURT Appellate Division, Second Department, 2011 Court of Claims, 2011 Court of Appeals, 2011
  40. LOOK FOR HIGHEST COURT Appellate Division, Second Department, 2011 Court of Claims, 2011 Court of Appeals, 2011
  41. CJS TO CASE
  42. CJS TO CASE LOOK FOR THE HEADNOTE THAT PERTAINS TO THE ELEMENTS OF NEGLIGENCE
  43. CJS TO CASE
  44. CJS TO CASE CLICK ON THE [3] TO GET TO THE PART OF THE DECISION WHERE YOU MIGHT SEE THE ELEMENTS
  45. CJS TO CASE
  46. CJS TO CASE Not enough: get this case
  47. Not what I am looking for
  48. CJS TO CASES GO BACK TO THE DIGESTS Hold down left (back) button on your browser. On drop down look for Digest. Go from there
  49. This looks promising
  50. CJS TO CASE To prove a prima facie case of negligence, a plaintiff must demonstrate the existence of a duty of care owed to the plaintiff, a breach of that duty, and that the breach of such duty was a proximate cause of his or her injuries ( see Pulka v. Edelman, 40 N.Y.2d 781, 390 N.Y.S.2d 393, 358 N.E.2d 1019; Gordon v. Muchnick, 180 A.D.2d 715, 579 N.Y.S.2d 745; see also Akins v. Glens Falls City School Dist., 53 N.Y.2d 325, 333, 441 N.Y.S.2d 644, 424 N.E.2d 531).
  51. CLEAN IT UP To prove a prima facie case of negligence, a plaintiff must demonstrate the existence of a duty of care owed to the plaintiff, a breach of that duty, and that the breach of such duty was a proximate cause of his or her injuries ( see Pulka v. Edelman, 40 N.Y.2d 781, 390 N.Y.S.2d 393, 358 N.E.2d 1019; Gordon v. Muchnick, 180 A.D.2d 715, 579 N.Y.S.2d 745; see also Akins v. Glens Falls City School Dist., 53 N.Y.2d 325, 333, 441 N.Y.S.2d 644, 424 N.E.2d 531).
  52. CLEAN IT UP To prove a prima facie case of negligence, a plaintiff must demonstrate the existence of a duty of care owed to the plaintiff, a breach of that duty, and that the breach of such duty was a proximate cause of his or her injuries (see Pulka v Edelman, 40 NY2d 781; Gordon v Muchnick, 180 AD2d 715; see also Akins v Glens Falls City School Dist., 53 NY2d 325, 333).
  53. CLEAN IT UP To prove a prima facie case of negligence, a plaintiff must demonstrate the existence of a duty of care owed to the plaintiff, a breach of that duty, and that the breach of such duty was a proximate cause of his or her injuries (see Pulka v Edelman, 40 NY2d 781; Gordon v Muchnick, 180 AD2d 715; see also Akins v Glens Falls City School Dist., 53 NY2d 325, 333).
  54. CLEAN IT UP The elements of negligence are: the existence of a duty of care owed to the plaintiff, a breach of that duty, and that the breach of such duty was a proximate cause of his or her injuries (see Pulka v Edelman, 40 NY2d 781; Gordon v Muchnick, 180 AD2d 715; see also Akins v Glens Falls City School Dist., 53 NY2d 325, 333).
More Related