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Citation rules/Cases

Cases.

Case names, reporters, courts, dates, and the parentheticals that follow.

122 rules on 9 pages of the book.

In this chapter

10.1Basic Citation Forms1
10.2Case Names35
10.3Reporters and Other Sources16
10.4Court and Jurisdiction14
10.5Date or Year4
10.6Parenthetical Information Regarding Cases8
10.7Prior and Subsequent History18
10.8Special Citation Forms15
10.9Short Forms for Cases11

10.1Basic Citation Forms

Add a comma after the case name

10.2Case Names

Remove the redundant business word
Replace the abbreviation with the word
10.2.1Use “v.” between the parties
10.2.1(a)Add a procedural phrase to the case name
10.2.1(a)Remove the consolidated action
10.2.1(a)Remove the description from the name
10.2.1(a)Remove the extra items from the case name
10.2.1(a)Remove the extra party names
10.2.1(a)Remove the municipal expression
10.2.1(a)Shorten the caption to its first item
10.2.1(a)Use a turned comma in the name
10.2.1(b)Abbreviate the procedural phrase
10.2.1(b)Remove or shorten the procedural phrase
10.2.1(b)Remove the second procedural phrase
10.2.1(b)Use “ex rel.” in the case name
10.2.1(c)Replace the abbreviation that opens the name
10.2.1(c)Replace the abbreviation with the word
10.2.1(d)Lowercase the article before the name
10.2.1(d)Remove “The” from the case name
10.2.1(d)Remove “The” from the party name
10.2.1(e)Remove the descriptive term
10.2.1(f)Remove “of America” from the party
10.2.1(f)Shorten the party name
10.2.1(g)Shorten the party to the full surname
10.2.1(i)(i)Remove the later union designations
10.2.1(i)(i)Remove the later union designations
10.2.1(i)(ii)Remove the extra trades from the name
10.2.1(i)(iv)Remove the location from the union's name
10.2.1(j)Use the Commissioner’s short form
10.2.1(k)Remove the emphasis from the parentheses
10.2.2Abbreviate the case name
10.2.2Abbreviate the state in the party name
10.2.2Lowercase the word after the abbreviation
10.2.2Use “United States” as the party name
10.2.2Use the state’s full name

10.3Reporters and Other Sources

Add the appellate district
Add the comma before the paragraph
Remove the date parenthetical
Remove the early reporter's name
Remove the period after “App”
Replace the volume or the reporter
Use a paragraph pincite
Use the official reporter
Use the public-domain citation form
10.3.1(b)Add the public-domain citation
10.3.2Use the editor’s series and volume
10.3.2Use the official reporter
10.3.2Use the table's spelling of the reporter
10.3.3Check the docket number's year
10.3.3Use a court token T1.3 prints
10.3.3Use a paragraph pincite

10.4Court and Jurisdiction

Abbreviate the court’s name
Abbreviate the jurisdiction
Add the court
Use the place’s citation abbreviation
Use the table’s court abbreviation
10.4(a)Add “U.S.” to the parenthetical
10.4(a)Move the Circuit Justice designation
10.4(a)Remove the court or the jurisdiction
10.4(a)Use the standard court abbreviation
10.4(a)Use this edition’s FISA abbreviation
10.4(b)Abbreviate the county
10.4(b)Add the state to the parenthetical
10.4(b)Check the state against the reporter
10.4(b)Remove the court from the parenthetical

10.5Date or Year

Remove the comma before the parenthetical
10.5(a)Add the year of decision
10.5(b)Add the date of decision
10.5(b)Add the decision date beside the court

10.6Parenthetical Information Regarding Cases

10.6.1(a)Use a history phrase, not a parenthetical
10.6.1(a)Use an explanatory phrase for an acquiescence
10.6.1(a)Use the judge's surname first
10.6.1(c)Use the surname and abbreviated title
10.6.2Use the in-chambers parenthetical form
10.6.2(a)Use the U.S. Reports
10.6.3Add the pincite to the quoted case
10.6.4Move the explanatory parenthetical last

10.7Prior and Subsequent History

Remove the old denial of review
10.7.1Replace the history phrase
10.7.1(a)Move the prior history first
10.7.1(a)Remove the year from the parenthetical
10.7.1(a)Remove the year parenthetical
10.7.1(a)Use the punctuation the phrase takes
10.7.1(c)(i)Add “and” between the overruling cases
10.7.1(c)(i)Italicize the “and”
10.7.1(c)(iii)Add the statute citation
10.7.1(e)Add “and” before the second disposition
10.7.1(e)Italicize the “and” between two dispositions
10.7.2(a)Add “sub nom.” before the new name
10.7.2(a)Use the “sub nom.” form
10.7.2(b)Remove “sub nom.” from the prior history
10.7.2(b)Remove the repeated case name
10.7.2(c)Remove “sub nom.” after a denial
10.7.2(c)Remove “sub nom.” and the reversed caption
10.7.2(c)Remove “sub nom.” on an agency appeal

10.8Special Citation Forms

10.8.1(a)Add the asterisk before the page
10.8.1(a)Add the database number
10.8.1(a)Use the database citation form
10.8.1(a)Use the paragraph symbol
10.8.1(b)Add “at” before the page
10.8.1(b)Add the court
10.8.1(b)Add the docket number
10.8.1(d)Use “depublished by”
10.8.2Add the month or remove “Former”
10.8.3Add the docket number
10.8.3Add the pincite to the database cite
10.8.3Add the pincite to the filing
10.8.3Replace the abbreviation with the word
10.8.3Use a time marker for the pincite
10.8.4Add a comma after the order's title

10.9Short Forms for Cases

10.9(a)Add the full citation for this case
10.9(a)Use a short form
10.9(a)Use the full citation
10.9(a)(i)Add “at” before the page
10.9(a)(i)Add the volume and reporter
10.9(a)(i)Drop the date parenthetical from the short form
10.9(a)(i)Use a distinctive name in the short form
10.9(a)(ii)Add the database number
10.9(a)(ii)Replace the docket with the database number
10.9(a)(iii)Add the shortened case name
10.9(b)(ii)Add the second reporter's pincite

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