American Law Reports contain two kinds of material: articles and cases. Articles cover a topic through cases that focus on a particular point of law. These articles collect the cases from a variety of state and federal courts or jurisdictions and arrange them according to how the courts have ruled.
American Law Reports are great to use for researching narrow topics, doing a survey of existing law, identifying trends in the law, and finding persuasive case law.
The ALR consists of several different series.
ALR Complete Series Index
ALR Quick Index
ALR Digest
ALR Table of Laws, Rules and Regulations
ALR Table of Cases
ALR Article Index
ALR Article Outline
Table of Jurisdictions
All ALR series continue to be updated, though not on a regular schedule.
ALR - Search each volume of the ALR Blue Book of Supplemental Decisions (see below)
ALR 2d - Search in the appropriate volume and pocket part of the ALR2d Later Case Service (see below)
ALR 3rd - 7th, ALR Fed series - Search the pocket part of the same volume
Rule 16.7.6 of The Bluebook (21st ed. 2020) covers how to cite ALRs.
The citation should contain:
William B. Johnson, Annotation, Use of Plea Bargain or Grant of Immunity as Improper Vouching for Credibility of Witness in Federal Cases, 76 A.L.R. Fed. 409 (1986 & Supp. 2015).
Rule 22.6 of the ALWD Citation Manual (7th ed.) covers the citation of ALRs.
The citation should contain:
William B. Johnson, Annotation, Use of Plea Bargain or Grant of Immunity as Improper Vouching for Credibility of Witness in Federal Cases, 76 A.L.R. Fed. 409 (1986 & Supp. 2015).
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