A.L.R. stands for American Law Reports.
An A.L.R. annotation is a secondary legal source that collects, summarizes, and organizes judicial decisions from multiple jurisdictions concerning a specific legal issue.
Instead of creating law, an annotation helps researchers understand how different courts have addressed the same question. It may group cases by majority rule, minority rule, exceptions, or factual differences.
A.L.R. annotations are useful starting points for legal research because they can help identify relevant cases and show how a legal issue has developed across jurisdictions.
Researchers should still read the underlying judicial opinions because the cases themselves are primary authority.
