Lets take a few minutes and take a look around to see where you might find these case opinions.
- The first one we talked about earlier. It can be found by going to:
and drilling down to volume 60 and looking on page 393.
- The second example can be solved in the same way.
- Now the next one we could go to the blue book and determine that the abbreviation here is Nebraska or we could just take a chance and go to any of the free websites previously listed - Free Sources for Supreme Court Decisions. Or we can grab the entire citation and conduct a simple Google search. And we come up with quite a bit, the best one out of the lot is the one on the Justia website which is one of the sources I linked to.
- The final one is actually the same case but why is the citation different? Well, if we go to the Claremont College abbreviation page we can see that the NW here refers to the NorthWestern reporter which covers Nebraska, so it's a citation to its entry in that reporter rather than the one in the Nebraska reporter. Who cares? Well, you might if you actually had to cite it for a case - some states have both official and unofficial reporters so you'd want to make sure you cite the most authoritative official one. How would you know? Again, the Bluebook Guide to Citation.
Here's an interactive map of regional reporters and the states they cover.
Westlaw's Regional Reporters Map
