page_title: National Reporter System
section_title: State reporters
hierarchical_section_title: National Reporter System / State reporters
caption_attribution_description: Map of the w:United States, showing areas covered by each of the state compilation w:law reports published by w:Thomson West. Purple: w:North Eastern Reporter Orange: w:Atlantic Reporter Yellow: w:North Western Reporter Green: w:South Eastern Reporter Cyan: w:South Western Reporter Blue: w:Southern Reporter Red: w:Pacific Reporter
context_page_description: West's National Reporter System is a set of case law reporters for federal courts and appellate state courts in the United States. It started with the North Western Reporter in 1879 which has its origin in The Syllabi.
context_section_description: For the purpose of state court reporting the 50 states and the District of Columbia are divided into seven regions as follows:
  These regional reporters are supplemented by reporters for a single state like the New York Supplement (N.Y.S. 1888–1938; 2d 1938–) and the California Reporter (Cal.Rptr. 1959–1991; 2d 1991–2003; 3d 2003–) which include decisions of intermediate state appellate courts. The New York Supplement covers both intermediate appellate courts and state trial courts, since there is also an official reporter for the latter in New York State.
  In states without an official reporter, many attorneys and law firms balked in the pre-Internet age at the considerable expense of subscribing to a West regional state law reporter when all they really needed was case law from the appellate courts of their home state.  This caused West to produce so-called "offprint" reporters for specific states like Texas and Missouri, of which there are now around 30.  With the sole exception of Illinois Decisions (which is consecutively paged), all cases in offprint reporters maintain the volume and page numbers of the regional reporters from which they were taken.  In other words, the contents of the offprint reporters look like the relevant regional reporter after all cases from unwanted states have been deleted.
caption: Map of the U.S., showing areas covered by the Thomson West National Reporter System state law reports.
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