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If you're going to be citing a lot of law cases or other legal documents, The MLA Handbook suggests that you consult A Uniform System of Citation (Cambridge: Harvard Law Rev. Assn.). The following guidelines should suffice for most academic papers, although pre-law students should probably get their hands on the Harvard book.

Don't set off titles of laws or acts with underlines, italics, or quote marks in text or Works Cited, but you may abbreviate titles, with the works cited by sections and the years added if relevant.

Works Cited

21 US Code. Sec. 1401a. 1988.
US Const. Art. 1, sec.1.

The citation of an act requires the act's name, its Public Law number, the date it was enacted, and its Statutes at Large cataloging number.

Works Cited

Driving a Professor Crazy Act of 1996. Publ. L.
100-418. 14 Nov. 1996. Stat. 99.1496.

Pepin v. Medieval Scholars Soc. of America. 
176 USPQ 677. CT
Super. Ct. 1996.

(This case would refer the reader to a case decided by the Connecticut Supreme Court and described in the United States Patent Quarterly, page 677 of volume 176.) Although abbreviation is the norm in such citations, make sure there is enough information for your user to find your resource. For listing of similar cases with the same first name, etc., list items in chronological order.

For parenthetical citation, use the case name or title that you've used to create the Works Cited page. If there is more than one listing of similar acts or cases, use the date as well.

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