A legal precedent on theft and bodily injury would be found in which term?

• A. Public Servant
• B. State v. Sewell
• C. Traffic Stop
• D. Suspicious Fire

Answer: (B)

In legal study, precedent comes from published court decisions, and those decisions are identified by case names. A case like State v. Sewell signals a specific state court ruling that addresses criminal issues, such as theft and bodily injury, and its reasoning becomes authority for later cases with similar facts. The format of a case name is exactly how you locate these precedents in case reporters and databases. The other options describe terms or concepts (a job category, a police procedure, or a type of incident) rather than published decisions that establish legal principles, so they wouldn’t be sources of case-law precedent.