Evidence: Primary Sources

Federal Law

• Federal Rules of Evidence (via Legal Information Institute)
• Federal Rules of Evidence (via Lexis+ - need login)
• Federal Rules of Evidence (via Westlaw Edge - need login)

State Law

• Ohio Rules of Evidence (Lexis+ - need login)
• Ohio Rules of Evidence (Westlaw Edge - need login)

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Key Numbers

• Consult an annotated code to identify cases applying or interpreting a specific law. 
• Conduct a KeyCite (Westlaw Edge) or Shepard's (LexisNexis) if you have a citation to a case. KeyCite and Shepard's trace the history of the case to which have a citation and later cases that have referred to the case. Cases about the statute will be listed as citing references. 

Locating Case Law on Westlaw

• Search a single jurisdiction using keywords
• Search multiple jurisdictions using key words
• Search of specific areas of Law
• Search by Key Number

Locating Case Law on Lexis+

• Browse Topics > Evidence
• Then follow the instructions to limit the search

National Survey of State Laws (available on HeinOnline)

• Browse Databases by Category
• U.S. State
• National Survey of State Laws
• Browse Laws by Category OR Browse Laws by Topic

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Browse Topics > Evidence

Then follow the instructions to further limit your search.