Bibliography
 		 
Miscellaneous Unofficial Reports

Wheeler, Jacob D. Reports of Criminal Law Cases Decided at the City-Hall of the City of New-York, with Notes and References. 3 vols. New York: 1823-25. (Covers period 1804-1825; includes a few cases from upstate and from U.S. courts and courts in other states.)

Rogers, Daniel, ed. The New-York City Hall Recorder ... Containing Reports of the Most Interesting Trials and Decisions Which Have Arisen in the Various Courts of Judicature, for the Trial of Jury Causes in the Hall, during That Year, Particularly in the Court of Sessions... New York: 1816-22. (Monthly publication containing summaries of trials and decisions, mostly in the criminal court of general sessions.)

Owen, Samuel, ed. The New York Legal Observer, Containing Reports of Cases Decided in the Courts of Equity and Common Law, and Important Decisions in the English Courts... 12 vols. New York: 1843-1854. (Includes articles on legal topics, reports from U.S. and New York City courts, etc.)


Modern Digests and Citators

Abbott New York Digest Consolidated Edition Covering the Reported Cases from the Earliest Time... 39 vols. St. Paul, Minn.: 1929-1943. (Digest of reported cases of New York courts from 1794 to 1929. Vol 2, pp. vii-xxx, contains brief histories of each court and a bibliography of reported decisions.)

Abbott New York Digest 2d. Plaintiff-Defendant Table, 4 vols. Defendant-Plaintiff Table, 3 vols. Rochester: 1965. (Includes citations to pre-1847 reported cases.)

Table of New York Cases, 1794-1912; Showing Where Such Cases Are Found in Abbott's Digest of All New York Reports, Vols. 1-21... New York: 1916. (This plaintiff index to an earlier edition of Abbott New York Digest is useful as a finding aid to nineteenth-century reported cases.)

Lacombe, E Henry, and A H Masten. Table of Cases Involving Questions of Law Peculiar to the City and County of New York, Compiled for the Use of the Law Department, 4th ed. New York: 1916. (Cites "all cases to which the City or County of New York or any officer thereof, are parties, and also all cases between private parties, involving the discussion of points of law peculiar to such city or county.")

Shepard's New York Court of Appeals Citations, Common Law and Chancery ..., 4th ed. New York 1941. (Contains citations to New York cases found in New York Reports, opinions of the Attorney General of New York, reports of the New York Department of State, U.S. Supreme Court reports, Federal Cases, Federal Reporter, Federal Supplement, and all other units of the National Reporter System.)


Courts Reports—History and Bibliography

Marke, Julius J. "Law Reporting in New York," pp. 43-59 in Legal Research and Law Library Management. New York: n.d.

Moore, John H. "One Hundred Fifty Years of Official Law Reporting and the Courts in New York." Syracuse Law Review, 6 (1955), 273-306.

New York (State). State Library. List of Official Court Reports of New York, Latest Digests, Indexes and Citations, and of Laws, Journals and Documents of the Legislature. Albany: 1889. (Brief tables.)

Soule, Charles C. The Lawyer's Reference Manual of Law Books and Citations. Boston: 1883. (Pp. 38-45 contain extensive information on various editions of the various series of New York court reports, including many not cited above.) 		 


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