I tried to read E&E (Torts, Contracts, Civ Pro, Property) *before* we covered a topic in class (skipping the examples), which made the lecture and cases much more helpful, then used Gilberts and the Examples from E&E to help with outline and study for exam.
What do you think of the E&E for Property? From everything I've read, it seems that E&E for Property is not as good as the E&E's for Civ Pro, Torts, and K's.
From what I've read, it seems like a ranking of the usefulness of the E&E's would look something like this:
1) Civ Pro (Glannon) - by far the best
2) Contracts (Blum) - similarly ranked with 3) Torts (Glannon)
4) Property - similarly ranked with 5) Crim Law
Con Law - not sure where this goes - probably somewhere near the bottom
Thus, my initial plan (gone awry) to purchase the top 3 (under my "ranking system," which I realize may be flawed).
Question - is it worthless to flip through the Gilbert outlines this summer before 1L to try to get an overview of the law? I remember someone stating that it is pretty worthless because you won't understand it, whereas E&E's might be somewhat helpful at least.
Also - would anyone recommend Emanuel's or Emanuel's Crunch Time series over Gilberts?