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The Yale Book of Quotations
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Regarding which, readers may view more here.

The Yale Book of Quotations
<http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/qyd/>

The Yale Book of Quotations is the most complete, up-to-date, and
authoritative quotation dictionary ever compiled. The editor, Fred R.
Shapiro, used innovative research techniques to ensure that the most
popular and eloquent quotations, especially modern and American ones often
missed by other dictionaries, were included.

The Yale book of quotations
by Fred R Shapiro
Type: English :  Book  Internet Resource
Publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, 2006.
ISBN: 0300107986 9780300107982 OCLC: 66527213

<http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/66527213&tab=holdings>

The author of the Yale Book of Quotations is also the author of

Oxford Dictionary of American Legal Quotations

The Oxford dictionary of American legal quotations
by Fred R Shapiro
Type: English :  Book
Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 1993.
ISBN: 0195058593 9780195058598 OCLC: 26851645
Subjects: Law -- United States -- Quotations.  | Derecho -- Citas  |
Reference.

<http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/26851645&tab=holdings>

The Oxford Dictionary of American Legal Quotations
Fred R. Shapiro
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Quoting:

The practice of law rests heavily on the incisive, pithy, and occasionally
witty language of the best technical writing, and law-related themes are
often found at the core of works of literature, politics, and other
fields. Previous compilations of legal quotations have been limited, with
significant gaps; many quoting rarely from American sources. For example,
Supreme Court Associate Justice Potter Stewart's famous quip about
pornography ("I know it when I see it") appears in no other work. The
Oxford Dictionary of American Legal Quotations is the most scholarly and
most complete legal quotation reference ever published. It includes a
comprehensive collection of the most famous passages of American judges
and legal commentators. This work also contains the wittiest sayings from
literature, humor, motion pictures, and even song lyrics relating to
American law. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Clarence Darrow, and Abraham
Lincoln share the pages with Mark Twain, Will Rogers, Kurt Vonnegut, Woody
Allen, and Bob Dylan.

Over 3,000 entries are presented in a subject arrangement. An author index
and an extensive "key-word" index further facilitate location of desired
quotes. Each quote has been verified from the original sources, with the
precise citations needed for legal reference.

For those needing a more extensive selection of quotation sources, this
website provides a useful collection of published books in this genre.

Nimitz Library, U. S. Naval Academy
Quotations and Concordances: A Selective Guide
<http://www.usna.edu/Library/Literature/Quotcon.html>

This website devoted to NonLegal Research includes quotation sources and
will be helpful to those using Shapiro's legal quotations source as a
place to learn of other reference tools that should help in general
research efforts.

M.G. Gallagher Law Library, University of Washington
Nonlegal Research
Legal Research Guides
Updated Aug. 30, 2004.
Prepared by Mary Whisner for Bridge the Gap.
<http://lib.law.washington.edu/ref/nonlegal.htm>

Quoting:

"Lawyers research often encompasses more than "legal research."
Litigators, scholars, and policy makers need to know something about the
real world -- so they might need statistics, news stories, scholarship
from other disciplines, and information as basic as addresses and phone
numbers.

Since law touches on so many aspects of life, some legal researcher may
need to get information about almost anything -- from engineering
(technical specifications about a piece of equipment involved in
litigation, for instance) to medicine, anthropology to zoology."

This Fred R. Shapiro article in JSTOR News should be of interest to some
of our readers.

No. 10, Issue 3, JSTORNEWS, October 2006
Historic Language Usage in JSTOR
<http://www.jstor.org/news/2006.10/historiclang.html>

One benefit of a long-term archive of journal back issues ranging across
many disciplines is that it can not only provide specific topic research
but can also serve as a broader historical snapshot of past language and
cultural trends. A fascinating example of this can be found in The Yale
Book of Quotations, recently published by Yale University Press in October
2006. The author, Fred R. Shapiro, extensively searched back issues of
journals archived in JSTOR to locate the earliest usages of popular quotes
and phrases.

Fred R. Shapiro is an associate librarian and lecturer in legal research
at the Yale Law School. He is a well-known authority on quotations and the
editor of The Oxford Dictionary of American Legal Quotations. In this Q &
A with JSTOR, Fred describes how he made use of the JSTOR archive in his
project and what the implications of this research may be.

There is also this review article:

Of Dictionaries, the "Bon Mot," and the "Mot Juste"
Reviewed Work(s):
The Oxford Dictionary of American Legal Quotations by Fred R. Shapiro
Mellinkoff's Dictionary of American Legal Usage by David Mellinkoff
Review author[s]: J. Allen Smith
Cardozo Studies in Law and Literature,
Vol. 6, No. 1 (Spring - Summer, 1994), pp. 123-131

Some more information regarding Fred Shapiro

"Fred Shapiro is coeditor of Trial and Error: An Oxford Anthology of Legal
Stories and editor of Stumpers!: Answers to Hundreds of Questions That
Stumped the Experts and four other books. He is a major contributor to the
Oxford English Dictionary and the Random House Historical Dictionary of
American Slang, and has published numerous articles on language, law, and
information science. He is associate librarian for public services and
lecturer in legal research at Yale Law School."

<http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/qyd/fred.html>

Shapiro, Fred R. "Prehistory of postmodern and Related Terms: Evidence
from the JSTOR Electronic Journal Archive and Other Sources"
American Speech
Volume 76, Number 3, Fall 2001, pp. 331-334
Duke University Press

Collected Papers on Legal Citation Analysis
Author: Fred R. Shapiro (Compiler}
Format: Hardcover, 179 pages
Publication Date: January 2001
Publisher: Fred B Rothman & Co
Dimensions: 10.25"H x 7"W x 0.75"D; 1.1 lbs.
ISBN-10: 083773701X
List Price: $39.50

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