Editing West American Digest System (section)

{{short description|Legal system}}
The '''West American Digest System''' is a system of identifying points of law from reported cases and organizing them by topic and key number. The system was developed by [[Thomson West|West Publishing]] to organize the entire body of [[Law of the United States|American law]]. This extensive [[Taxonomy (general)|taxonomy]] makes the process of doing [[case law]] [[legal research]] less time consuming as it directs the researcher to cases that are similar to the legal issue under consideration.