Law I Research Concepts Review

Match the following

• United States Supreme Court Decision

• Secondary Authority

• Annotated Case Reporter

• Persuasive Primary Authority

• 6th Circuit Court of Appeals Decision

• Mandatory Primary Authority

Match the following

• State Appellate Court
• Franklin County Court of Common Pleas
• Federal Appellate Court

• 10th District Court of Appeals
• Federal Trial Court

• District Court for the Southern District of Ohio

• State Trial Court

• Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals

Select any and all of the following cases that have binding precedential value in our case (State v. Bergeron), keeping in mind that we are in a state trial court, but dealing with a federal issue.

• State v. Miller,

  367 N.C. 702 (2014)

• United States v. Garcia, 496 F.3d 495 (6th Cir. 2007)

• Kyllo v. United States, 533 U.S. 27 (2001)

• State v. Johnson, 2014-Ohio-5021, 141 Ohio St. 3d 136

Select any and all of the following cases that have binding precedential value in our case (State v. Bergeron).

Remember, we are in the Franklin County Court of Common Pleas.

• State v. Teulilo, 530 P.3d 195 (Wash. 2023)

• Trish's Cafe v. Ohio Dept. of Health, 195 Ohio App.3d 612, 2011-Ohio-3304 (10th Dist.)

• State v. Buzzard, 112 Ohio St.3d 451, 2007-Ohio-373

• State v. Peterson, 173 Ohio App.3d 575, 2007-Ohio-5667 (2nd Dist.)

If you need a quick overview of an area of law, which secondary source will be the most helpful?

• American Jurisprudence (Legal Encyclopedia)

• American Law Reports (Annotations)

If you need to find case law pertaining to a very specific legal issue, which secondary source would you consult?

• American Jurisprudence (Legal Encyclopedia)

• American Law Reports (Annotations)

True or False: A good database search will always yield a lot of results

• TRUE

• FALSE

If you want to search a database for all cases that contain the word search within 3 words of seizure, seize, or seized, what would be the correct search language?

• search (3) seiz!

• search OR seizure AND seize AND seized

• search AND seizure OR seize OR seized

• search /3 seiz!

Let's say you're using the "One Good Case" method for starting your research. You navigate to your known good case. You want to find more cases that talk about a specific point of law from within that case. Which of these database features will be the most helpful?

• Cited with

• Headnotes

• History

• Other citing sources

You are looking through the results of your well crafted case law search, and you see a red symbol next to the case name. What does this mean?

• You shouldn't use this case, keep scrolling

• There might be negative treatment of the case, and you should investigate further