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Choper’s High Court Case Summaries on Constitutional Law, 10th contain well-prepared briefs for each major case in this casebook. High Court briefs are written to present the essential facts, issue, decision and rationale for each case in a clear, concise manner. While prepared briefs can never substitute for the insight gained by actually reading a case, these briefs will help readers to identify, understand, and absorb the core take away knowledge from each case. … More >>
High Court Case Summaries on Constitutional Law
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After a while, all the cases in Con Law 1 start to blend together — especially in Chemerinsky’s book, where it seems he edits almost nothing out of the cases. About half way through the semester, I gave up on reading the cases because there simply wasn’t time. After finishing reading 15 pages of a case, I’d still have no clue what I was supposed to get out of it. So I changed my strategy at the suggestion of some classmates — I read Chemerinsky’s commentary and the summaries of the cases from the High Court Case Summaries book. Con Law 1 ended up being my highest grade of the year. I wish I had used these books for all my first year classes!
Rating: 5 / 5
Its a fine book but what I found out after I recieved it is that its keyed to the First Edition not the most recent edition. So its missing a few cases.
Rating: 4 / 5
The High Court Case Summaries are great commercial brief books, but have much better features than legalines. They provide a more concise brief and usually keep them to one page instead of the legalines who bunch all of their material together. The also have the quick facts and memory image as well as a black letter law and definitions section. I wish they had a high courts case summary book for all my classes.
Rating: 5 / 5
My professor assigns every case in the casebook. After reading 10-15 cases in a row it is easy to lose focus. This book was helpful in keeping my focus on the important issues. The briefs generally touch on most of the issues that my professor deems important. I don’t use these as a substitution for my reading of the cases, so it’s ok if it misses an important issue here and there because I likely pick up on it in my reading.
There are quite a few spelling and punctuation errors. It doesn’t hinder the effectiveness of the cases. However, it seems like spell check was the only method used to proof these briefs. A lot of errors were just inaccurate words. For example, “Constitution apples to private entity….”
Overall, I definitely recommend these briefs to assist with the understanding of the cases. Aside from this book, if you need help with the overall organization of the class, exam approaches or detailed rule statements, Emmanuel Law Outlines: Constitutional Law is extremely helpful.
Rating: 4 / 5
I stated off with Casenote Legal Briefs, which I found to be worthless, then I bought Legalines, which were better and then I bought this and it’s perfect. I only use this book to prepare for class and it’s always enough. It’s a great time saver. I will only use the High Court series from now on. Can’t recommend them enough.
Rating: 5 / 5