What are law digests?
- A digest helps you to find cases on a specific legal issue or topic.
- West digests use headnotes and key numbers to organize and summarize all cases by subject.
- A digest is a set of books that has legal issues organized by topic.
- Each one of these legal topics are divided into subtopics.
- The digest books give a citation and brief summary of all reported cases that discuss the subtopic.
- These citations and summaries allow the legal researcher to find cases that are most similar to the client’s legal situation.
Digests in the Law Library
- Kentucky Digest -- Current
- American Digest: 1897-1906
- 3rd Decennial Digest: 1916-1928
- 4th Decennial Digest: 1926-1936
- 5th Decennial Digest: 1936-1946
- 6th Decennial Digest: 1946-1956
- 7th Decennial Digest: 1956-1966
- 8th Decennial Digest: 1966-1976
- 9th Decennial Digest: 1976-1986
- Federal Practice Digest 2d -- Not Current
- Federal Practice Digest 3rd -- Not Current
- Federal Practice Digest 4th -- Not Current
- West's General Digest -- Not Current
- 10th Decennial Digest Part 1: 1986-1991
- 10th Decennial Digest Part 2: 1991-1996
- 11th Decennial Digest Part 1: 1996-2001
- 11th Decennial Digest Part 2: 2001-2004
- 11th Decennial Digest Part 3: 2004-2007
- 12th Decennial Digest Part 1: 2008-2010
- Modern Federal Practice Digest -- Not Current
- General Digest -- Not Current
- U.S. Supreme Court Digest (West) -- Not Current
- U.S. Supreme Court Digest Lawyer's Edition (LexisNexis) -- Not Current
