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The casebook has achieved a venerable status. Ever since Christopher Columbus Langdell devised the first compilation to teach his students using the case method, law professors have relied on casebooks to provide the substantive basis for their courses. In many areas of study, certain casebooks have achieved not only market dominance but generations of respect, having been first authored by a luminary in the field and now carried on by subsequent leading lights. Law students view the purchase and transportation of these massive tomes as part of their rites of passage, even as casebook prices continue to climb beyond $100. The casebook is, quite simply, the written centerpiece of legal education.