3.3 Working with the Sources

1. Primary first: read the statute and the judgment before the commentator; the secondary source's summary is a door, not a destination.2. Currency check: the amendment's hunt (the Gazette), the overruling's hunt (the later cases).3. Authority's weighting: the SC's binding text (Art 128's world) > the HC's persuasive text > the commentary's opinion.4. The reading discipline: the statute's structure (parts-chapters-sections); the case's anatomy (facts → issues → holdings → reasoning → the ratio's isolation).5. Note-taking: the exact citation with the page; the quotation's verbatim marking; the paraphrase's honesty — plagiarism's boundary (Unit 5).