This helps define how the broadly phrased law has been interpreted and comes in handy when looking for cases on a particular law or subject. Each volume also includes a subject index. There is a subject index which provides the subject access to the law. When you are using the Georgia Code remember that the first number of the citation is the title number and not the volume number. As with the United States Code Annotated , the annotated Georgia code provides notes and citations to relevant court cases.
Cases appear in Reporters , each Reporter contains the decisions from certain courts.
Cases are found in the various Reporters by their citation. To find this case look in volume 449 of the United States Reports on page 39 . This pattern is the same no matter what Reporter or court the citation refers to. Listed below are the available Reporters at Odum Library with an example citation for each reporter. The selection of Reporters in Odum Library is only a small sampling of all the existing reporters.