How Are Decisions Cited?
• The Official Reports are divided into three levels: the New York Reports [e.g., 74 NY2d 201], containing the decisions of the State’s highest court, the Court of Appeals; the Appellate Division Reports [e.g., 252 AD2d 156], containing the decisions of the State’s four intermediate appellate level departments; and the Miscellaneous Reports [e.g., 178 Misc 2d 185], containing the decisions of trial level courts and the Appellate Term of the Supreme Court. • All decisions published in the Official Reports are also assigned an official electronic citation number, in the form, e.g., 2001 NY Slip Op 00001. The initial number denotes the year that a decision is published. The second is a unique serial number assigned to each decision for that particular year. Citations for Unreported opinions have a “(U)” suffix, e.g., 2001 NY Slip Op 40001(U). Use this electronic citation for officially published cases which have not been assigned a permanent citation in the traditional “volume-report-page
