Finding Legal Precedents

From Wikiversity

   Knowing the legal principles involved in a lawsuit is mandatory to finding legal 

precedents (cases previously decided in your favor) to help you prove your case.

   There's a set of books in law libraries (most courts have them), which are robin's 

egg blue in color, and on the spine there's a gold key. IF you can find the legal principle, you can look that up in these books, and it will state the cases which have formed the legal opinion for your state. Then, having the reference to those precedent cases, you can go and look up the cases themselves, and read through that court's final decree to find out what the particulars of the case were, what the argument were, and why the case was decided in favor of the one party, or another. Sometimes these cases will state other legal precedents (prior law cases) which had principles of law established by them. But one has to know the legal principles that were broken, or that support you, in order to understand what to look up in the blue books with the key on them.

   I'd certainly appreciate whatever info anyone has on more quickly and certainly 

finding Alaska contract law. I DID find the Alaska jury instructions re contracts, stating if the jury finds, this, then they must rule this way or that. I found similar instructions for New Jersey, and that (New Jersey) site actually listed the legal precedent cases on which those instructions are based. But Alaska law doesn't name the precendents.

    It should be federal law that these things can't be hidden from the public/pro 

se litigant. Like wikipedia, the law should be freely available and open to everyone who is forced, financially, to represent themselves against injustices.

   If anyone knows where Alaska's precedent cases that back up Alaska's contract 

law jury instructions might be listed, I'd certainly be very blessed for that help in getting my unjustly removed-from-me land back!