Federal Rules Decisions (F.R.D.) is a collection of federal court opinions not designated for publication that involve the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (since 1939) and the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure (since 1946).

The syllabus is an official summary of the case and even though it is prepared by an employee of the court, it is not to be considered part of the case.

The American Digest System was developed to help attorneys check the status of cases to determine its value as precedent so that attorneys would not be as likely to cite a case to a judge that had been overruled by a more recent case.

The United States Supreme Court Digest corresponds to which publishing company’s reporter?

The unofficial reporter for the United States Supreme Court originally published by Lawyer’s Co-Op, and containing in depth annotations for each case is the

The U.S.C. is fully annotated.

The United States Code Annotated, originally published by Lawyers’ Co-op/Lexis, and the United States Code Service, originally published by West are both unofficial sources of federal statutory codes.

Selected opinions from federal district courts are published in the Federal Supplement.

When using the Topic and Key Number System in Westlaw, the topic is assigned a particular abbreviation.

The West Reporter that contains case law that deals ONLY with procedural law is called Federal Rules Decisions.