casebooks
Lawyer's reference volumes
Casebooks are books containing detailed records or reports of specific cases, especially in law or medicine.
Law students study casebooks to learn legal principles through actual court decisions.
Medical casebooks compile patient histories for reference or teaching.
The term also applies to collections of detective cases in fiction: a Sherlock Holmes casebook.
Prior authoritative example
- litigationLegal dispute process
- plaintiffCivil case initiator
- defendantParty facing charges
- verdictOfficial court decision
appeal · testimony · jurisprudence · adjudication · briefs · torts · contracts · civil procedure
Course plan document
- curriculumEducational program's content plan
- seminarsStructured educational discussions
- professorsHighest-ranking university instructors
- studentsThose receiving instruction
study groups · analysis · discussion questions · readings · assignments · classroom · pedagogy · Socratic method
Systematic searches for truth
- evidenceFacts supporting truth
- cluesHints toward answers
- suspectsThinks someone's guilty
- mysteriesUnexplained phenomena or events
Sherlock Holmes · unsolved cases · criminal records · witness statements · crime scenes · deductions · cold cases · forensics
Gathered sets of works
- anthologiesCurated selection collections
- editionsVersions of publications
- volumesAmounts or books
- annotationsExplanatory additions to documents
commentaries · publishers · editors · supplements · updates · citations · index · appendix
Identification of illness
- symptomsIndicators of disease
- patient historyChronicle of prior health
- treatmentCare for an ailment
- prognosisPredicted disease course
differential diagnosis · pathology · rounds · grand rounds · physical examination · lab results · imaging · medical students
precedent
Prior authoritative example
- litigationLegal dispute process
- plaintiffCivil case initiator
- defendantParty facing charges
verdict · appeal · testimony · jurisprudence · adjudication · briefs · torts · contracts · civil procedure · evidence
syllabus
Course plan document
- curriculumEducational program's content plan
- seminarsStructured educational discussions
- professorsHighest-ranking university instructors
students · study groups · analysis · discussion questions · readings · assignments · classroom · pedagogy · Socratic method · hypotheticals
investigations
Systematic searches for truth
Sherlock Holmes · mysteries · unsolved cases · criminal records · witness statements · crime scenes · deductions · cold cases · forensics
compilations
Gathered sets of works
- anthologiesCurated selection collections
- editionsVersions of publications
- volumesAmounts or books
annotations · commentaries · publishers · editors · supplements · updates · citations · index · appendix · footnotes
diagnosis
Identification of illness
- symptomsIndicators of disease
- patient historyChronicle of prior health
- treatmentCare for an ailment
prognosis · differential diagnosis · pathology · rounds · grand rounds · physical examination · lab results · imaging · medical students · attending physician
- compilationsanthology, compilation, anthologies, collection, collected stories
- law schoollaw school, law schools, law student, law students, law degree
- legal educationlaw schools, legal education, law school, moot court, law degree
- research materialsbibliographies, databases, encyclopedias, dictionaries, indexes
- ancient surgeryamputation, trepanation, cauterization, bloodletting, cautery
- legal bookslaw dictionary, hornbook, treatise, nutshell, lawbook
casebookstextbooks
Educational reference volumes
treatises · primers · lecture notes · manuals · handbooks
casebooksencyclopedias
Multi-volume knowledge collections
compendia · monographs · codifications · digests · summaries