This is how we go about

with a Case Digest -

I. Case Title –
 
Include the parties to the case (petitioner/s &
respondent/s), the GR No. (e.g. GR No.199802)
or if taken from the Supreme Court Reports
Annotated (SCRA) or Philippine Reports, state
the volume number and the first page where the
case appears or is written, e.g. 869 SCRA 440.
 
II. Syllabus –
 
A short statement of the decided case containing the
court ruling/findings on the legal case involved. Note
that a case may cover several fields of law, e.g., a case
may involve Labor Law and Remedial Law with
Statutory Construction, or Political & Civil Law with
Remedial Law. You only have to focus on the
ruling/findings which involve your subject.
 (Our first lesson in Statutory Construction would have
reference to Constitutional Law and Civil Law, so you
will have to focus on any of this and Statutory
Construction itself. Note: If your case is taken from the
SCRA or Philippine Reports, the first part of the Case
Report is the Syllabus (it shows the findings of the
Highest Court on a particular law involved in the case).
 
III. Facts of the case –
 
A narration of the facts of the case. You must state
only the relevant facts. A decided case may be very long;
if you get your assigned case from either the SCRA or
Philippine Reports you may find the same written in so
many pages. You are thus urged to pick out only the
relevant facts.
 You must be able to narrate the facts well. In
reporting a case, you must present the facts clearly;
from this narration, you might be asked how you will
decide the case (without going to the resolution of the
Supreme Court).
IV. Issue or Issues -
 
An issue is something which has to be resolved. Given
the set of facts, what is or should be the issue or issues
which have to be decided upon. They are usually framed
in the form of a question, answerable by either Yes or
No, e.g., Is the law constitutional? Or – Are the
petitioners correct in assailing the law as invalid?
An issue may also be framed by opening it with the
statement Whether or Not … e.g., Whether or not the
contention of the respondent is correct, or Whether or
not the implementing rule is in accord with the
Constitution. Finally, the issue has to be answered or
resolved in the ruling.
V. Ruling –
This is the resolution of the Supreme Court in the
given case. This would answer the issue or issues
identified. If the issue was formulated in the form of a
question answerable by either a Yes or No, the ruling will
start with a categorical yes or no answer, then followed
by an explanation of the reason for said ruling or
decision. The explanation or justification will have
reference to the facts and the applicable law involved.
 
 Your ruling must always contain a discussion of the
relevant facts and the law on which the decision is
based. Thus, it would be grossly incomplete for you to
simply say in your ruling that – “The respondent is not
correct. The petition therefore is meritorious.” You
must include in the ruling the basis of the Court in
finding the petition meritorious.