Document Type
Article
Abstract
Legal literature consists of a variety of secondary sources that assist the researcher in interpreting primary sources. Citators provide a useful tool for researchers needing to find citations to cases, statutes, and other primary sources.1 Lawyers are of course familiar with Shepard's citators for almost one hundred years now. But Shepard's did not always dominate the legal field until after the first decades of the twentieth century.2 But it was not until the end of the first quarter of this century that Shepard's citators gained dominance in Pennsylvania. With over 1,100 volumes of appellate court cases and 1,000 volumes of county court cases, the need to update cases provided a need for a publishers to provide. This article discusses the history of citators from the nineteenth century down to the present for Pennsylvania.
Repository Citation
Fishman, J. (2008). Citators of Pennsylvania. Unbound - An Annual Review of Legal History and Rare Books,, 1. Retrieved from https://dsc.duq.edu/law-faculty-scholarship/175