Formats for Locating Legal Documents

You can retrieve the full text of documents such as cases, law reviews, and IRS materials when you enter a citation in the correct format. For examples of the formats you can use to retrieve these documents, click a link below.

Administrative Documents

ALR® Annotations

Case Law

Law Reviews

Legislative Documents

LexisNexis® Cites

Patents

Tax Documents

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Administrative Documents

6 cit 76
56 fed reg 64004
50 ferc p61,095
1990 sec no-act lexis 268

ALR® Annotations

55 alr3d 10
55 alrfed 583

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Case Law

Federal

100 F.2d 1
134 F.3d 817
19 F Supp. 2d 104
789 F. Supp. 320
139 L. Ed. 2d 25
118 S Ct. 62
514 U.S. 673
65 U.S.L.W. 3204

State

246 App Div 2d 682
19 Cal 4th 142
23 Fla. Law W. D 733
344 Ill. App. 266
344 Mich. 624
230 N.J. Super. 182
23 N.Y.S.2d 2
84 Ohio St. 3d 1457
2000 PA Super 2
150 Tex. 39

Regional

723 A.2d 852
250 Cal. Rptr. 21
100 N.E.2d 497
75 N.W.2d 19
100 P. 34
300 P.2d 19
727 So. 2d 913
150 S.W.2d 202

Topical / Special Reporters

Bankr. L. Rep. (CCH) P78,102
Fed. Sec. L. Rep. (CCH) P34,763
20 U.S.P.Q.2D (BNA) 1830
28 Media L. Rep. 1219
5 Wage & Hour Cas. 2d (BNA) 1632

Note:  As a general rule, you can use citation formats found in the Uniform System of Case Citation (Blue Book). Official and unofficial citations, as well as many variations in the punctuation and spacing of reporter abbreviations, are acceptable formats. You can also find the case when you enter a reporter page other than the starting page number, such as a "jump cite," or "pinpoint cite."

Law Reviews

15 Del J Corp L 135
104 Harv l Rev 22

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Legislative Documents

1995 bill tracking hr 228
134 cong rec h 1863
134 cong rec s 861
104 hr 228
1995 hr 228
104 h rpt 209
104 pl 28
1989 tx als 733
104 s 4
1996 senate vote no 304

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LEXIS® Cites

1999 cal ag lexis 1
1999 cal lexis 64
1998 ny tax lexis 85
1995 us app lexis 33494
1995 us dist lexis 17641
1999 us lexis 15

Patents

patno 5482742
patno d 379556
patno re 35521

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Tax Documents

Document	Format
Action on Decision	aod 1997-004
AFTR2d	75 AFTR2d 2719
Board of Tax Appeals	43 BTA 183
Chief Counsel Advice	irs cca 199939001
Claims Court	20 CL CT 308
Court of Claims	156 CT CL 680
Cumulative Bulletin	1985-1 cb 550
Field Service Advice	irs fsa 200015024
General Counsel Memoranda	gcm 39884
Internal Revenue Bulletin	1990-8 irb 18
IRS Notices	notice 2000-22 notice 99-60
IRS Announcements	announcement 2000-35 announcement 99-116
Private Letter Ruling	plr 199905024 *
Revenue Ruling	rev rul 2000-1** rev rul 74-56
Revenue Procedure	rev proc 2000-9 ** rev proc 86-22
RIA Federal Tax Coordinator	riaftc b 3500
Service Center Advice	sca 1997009
Tax Court	88 TC 1405
Tax Court by number	104 TC NO 31
Tax Court Memoranda	TC MEMO 1995-234 69 TCM 2746
Technical Advice Memorandum	tam 199934002 *
Treasury Decision	td 8167
United States Tax Cases	95-1 USTC p50,296

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Use the two-digit year format to retrieve Private Letter Rulings (PLR) and Technical Advice Memoranda (TAM) dated before 1999. For example, enter a 1995 PLR as:

plr 9526007

For recently issued Private Letter Rulings, search Tax Analysts Tax Notes Today using the LEXSTAT® feature.

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Use the two-digit year format to retrieve Revenue Rulings and Revenue Procedures dated before 2000.

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Use the LEXSTAT® feature to retrieve a Tax Notes Today (TNT) document when you have a TNT cite.