CHAPTER 3
THE SKILLS YOU NEED TO READ AND ANALYZE A CASE
As mentioned in the last chapter, cases usually have a superficial organization that doesn’t provide much direction for readers. Related information is scattered across sections, and the section headings don’t necessarily help you discern the relative importance of the information they contain. The information dispersed throughout the case and the data you will extrapolate from calculations and exhibits are the puzzle pieces that need to be assembled into a pattern that has meaning.
There are thousands of published cases, and each is, in a sense, unique. No case presents the same set of facts as any other case. But cases also have similarities that can facilitate your study of them. Most ...
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