With a preface by Michael H. Hoeflich, John H. & John M. Kane
Professor of Law, University of Kansas School of Law and an
introduction by William E. Butler, John Edward Fowler Distinguished
Professor of Law, Pennsylvania State University Dickinson School of
Law and Emeritus Professor of Comparative Law at University College
London; Academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.
Includes the text of Vol. 1, No. 1 (Oct. 21, 1876) to Vol. 1, No.
26 (April 14, 1877), originally published: St. Paul, Minn.: J.B.
West & Co. 1876-1877. "In 1876, John B. West, twenty-four years
old, launched a new publication that would within a decade evolve
into the National Reporter System. As a traveling salesman for an
office supply company in St. Paul, young West visited many
Minnesota attorneys. He learned that the official publishers of
court reports were chronically slow. West was later to say that if
the official state publishers had been properly doing their jobs
there would have been no need for his reporters. His first
publication, The Syllabi was an eight-page weekly news-sheet that
contained "prompt and reliable intelligence as to the various
questions adjudicated by the Minnesota Courts at a date long prior
to the publication of the State Reports." Its immediate popularity
among the bar soon forced it to outgrow its original format and
coverage. In early 1877, only six months after it had begun, The
Syllabi was replaced by the North-Western Reporter. The reporter,
another weekly, was also a transitional publication. It contained
the full text of all Minnesota Supreme Court decisions and
Minnesota federal court decisions, as well as those from the
Wisconsin Supreme Court in cases "of special importance." This
publication lasted two years, four semi-annual volumes. In 1879,
West announced a new series of the North Western Reporter (the
first of the modern West regional reporters) that would publish the
full text of all current supreme court decisions from Iowa,
Minnesota, Michigan, Nebraska, Wisconsin, and the Dakota Territory.
The Federal Reporter and the Supreme Court Reporter began within
the next two years and, in 1885, West Publishing (as it was
incorporated in 1882) announced the publication of four new
reporters that, along with its current reports, gave it nationwide
coverage. (.) The National Reporter System was soon proclaimed to
have "Unquestionably revolutionized the whole plan of law
reporting." --Thomas A. Woxland & Patti J. Ogden, Landmarks in
American Legal Publishing. An Exhibit Catalogue 38-40.
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