Law report
![The United States Reports, the official reporter of the Supreme Court of the United States](/Images/godic/202501/23/Unitedstatesreports1131.jpg")
![The headnote from the leading English case Wilkinson v. Downton [1897] 2 QB 57.](/Images/godic/202501/23/A_headnote1131.png")
![A few volumes of the English Reports at a law library](/Images/godic/202501/23/English_Reports1131.jpg")
![The Pacific Reporter, a part of West's National Reporter System](/Images/godic/202501/23/Pacific_Reporter1131.jpg")
Law reports or reporters are series of books that contain judicial opinions from a selection of case law decided by courts. When a particular judicial opinion is referenced, the law report series in which the opinion is printed will determine the case citation format.