Trial court and appellate division cases are reported in the New Jersey Superior Court Reports . There is also a separate reporter for New Jersey tax court cases entitled New Jersey Tax Court Reports . Other states' reporters are compiled in a variety of reporters. Many times it will be more difficult to locate a case from another state if you do not have access to a larger law library. Usually, if the library holds these titles, the case may be found in what is know as a regional reporter.
Regional reporters are case compilations taken from a geographic region.
For example, there is the Atlantic Reporter , which reports New Jersey cases and cases from several surrounding states. Citations to regional reporters may be found by shepardizing the case or it is sometimes listed in another source citing that particular case. Case law published subsequent to the last bound volume of cases may be found in periodically issued pamphlets called advance sheets. Make sure you check these to see if any recent cases are relevant to your topic. Well, besides finding cross-references in statutes, other cases and periodicals, WestGroup, publishers of a majority of the case reporters, has formulated a topical indexing system that groups together cases that discuss similar topics.