A Digest is described as which of the following? (repeated)

• A. A chronological list of all appellate opinions.
• B. A general reference to case law without organization.
• C. A index to reported cases that provides brief, unconnected statements of court holdings on points of law, arranged by subject and subdivided by jurisdiction and courts.
• D. A summary of statutes.

Answer: (C)

Digests function as topical indexes of case law. They pull out the holdings from reported decisions and present them as brief statements about how the court ruled on specific points of law. This material is then organized by subject area and further subdivided by jurisdiction and court, so you can quickly locate how different cases have addressed a particular issue across the legal landscape.

This is different from a chronological list of appellate opinions, which would simply gather full texts in order by date. It’s also not a general, unstructured reference to case law, since digests categorize and cross-reference holdings by topic. And it isn’t a summary of statutes, because digests focus on judicial decisions and what they say about legal principles, not the text of statutes.