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1421: 1444:(which is consecutively paged), all cases in offprint reporters maintain the volume and page numbers of the regional reporters from which they were taken. In other words, the contents of the offprint reporters look like the relevant regional reporter after all cases from unwanted states have been deleted. 1507:, or administrative agencies at either the federal or state level. Certain opinions from federal courts of appeals, federal district courts, and state appellate courts are not selected or designated for publication. However, all these materials can be found separately on legal research databases. 1439:
In states without an official reporter, many attorneys and law firms balked in the pre-Internet age at the considerable expense of subscribing to a West regional state law reporter when all they really needed was case law from the appellate courts of their home state. This caused West to produce
1491:. Since the NRS now comprises over 10,000 volumes, and many older cases have been overruled or superseded, only the largest law libraries keep a complete hard copy set on site. Most law libraries either do not carry older volumes or retrieve them on request from off-site compact storage. 1436:(Cal. Rptr. 1959–1991; 2d 1991–2003; 3d 2003–) which include decisions of intermediate state appellate courts. The New York Supplement covers both intermediate appellate courts and state trial courts, since there is also an official reporter for the latter in New York State. 1503:, nor with all published state cases that predate the start of the NRS regional or state-level reporters. The NRS does not include opinions from state trial courts, courts administered by territorial governments (as distinguished from federal territorial courts), 1479:, and state appellate courts in many states that currently do not have an official reporter (either because they never had one or they are one of the 21 states who abolished their official reporter in favor of the NRS). The NRS is available at 1494:
While enormous in size and vast in scope, the NRS is not entirely comprehensive. In the 1890s, West retroactively brought all pre-1880 published cases of all lower federal courts into the NRS framework by compiling them into the
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so-called "offprint" reporters for specific states like Texas and Missouri, of which there are now around 30. With the sole exception of
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For the purpose of state court reporting the 50 states and the District of Columbia are divided into seven regions as follows:
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reporter. But West never did the same thing with all U.S. Supreme Court cases which predate the publication of the
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throughout the United States, and is also available through online legal research databases like
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Set of case law reporters for federal courts and appellate state courts in the United States
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These regional reporters are supplemented by reporters for a single state like the
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Today, the NRS is the primary publication route for opinions from the
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Barkan, Steven M.; Bintliff, Barbara A.; Whisner, Mary (2015).
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Index

West
case law
reporters
federal courts
appellate
state courts
United States
North Western Reporter
LCCN
2010-213400
LCCN
LCCN
99-537
Federal Cases
LCCN
99-32
Federal Reporter
LCCN
99-4395
LCCN
79-641716
LCCN
90-657017
Federal Supplement
LCCN
33-14431
LCCN
89-642487
Federal Rules Decisions
LCCN

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