Moreland v. Chesapeake Stone Co. — Which reporter published the case?

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In legal citations, the reporter tells you where the case’s opinion is published, and each reporter series covers specific courts and regions. United States Reports is the official reporter for Supreme Court decisions; Federal Reporter collects U.S. Courts of Appeals opinions; Atlantic Reporter compiles many state-court decisions from the Atlantic region; Southwestern Reporter gathers decisions from states in the southwestern region and their intermediate appellate courts. If Moreland v. Chesapeake Stone Co. is published in the Southwestern Reporter, that signals the opinion appeared in that regional series—not in the Supreme Court or in a federal appellate reporter, and not in the Atlantic region. The presence of the Southwestern abbreviations in the citation indicates the publishing series. So recognizing the correct publisher comes down to matching the case to the reporter that serves its jurisdiction; the Southwestern Reporter designation means the case’s opinion was issued by a court covered by that series.