Sort Authority Before You Cite It
Classify authority by weight and relationship before citing it.
comparison Place each source in the role it should play in a legal paragraph for a state trial court. Binding rule Persuasive support Analogical support Background only State supreme court case interpreting the same notice statute. Intermediate appellate case in the same state applying the same contract waiver test. Federal district case predicting state law on a similar warranty disclaimer. Neighboring state appellate case with the same statutory phrase and similar remedial scheme. Trade-secret case involving paper files used to reason about exported customer CSVs. Older trespass case useful only for comparing controlled access to restricted cloud storage. Treatise section…
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