The North Eastern, Southern, and South Western regions do not have digests, and states in those regions must be researched through individual state digests or the General and Decennial digests. The Boston College Law Library has state digests for 29 states shelved in the state collections on Level 4. The Massachusetts Digest volumes are shelved in the Massachusetts Collection on Level 4. The easiest way to find cases that interpret statutes is to use an annotated code. A code is a topical arrangement of all the permanent general laws in force in a particular jurisdiction.
Annotated codes add headnotes from cases that interpret individual code provisions.
These appear after every code section. Most of the cases found in law libraries are not pending cases but judicial opinions, primarily from appellate courts. However, there are limited instances in which law libraries contain information on pending litigation. Cases pending in the U.S. Supreme Court may be tracked using U.S. Law Week, KF 105 .U54 . Current issues are on Reserve at the Circulation Desk.