My thesis is based on sociology of law and i want to put summary of few cases intervened by court of law (which include background of the victim and case, legal issues, intervention of justice system) to show a pattern. Since this not purely about legal intervention so i cannot just go for legal reference only. For this i need to narrate a summary of issues around the case as well. How can do that? Is there a method or format for writing such summaries in the dissertation and using them to show a pattern in the research ?