Add the docket number
Warning2Federal courts, Illinois courts21st and 22nd editions
A court filing cited from another case always carries that case's docket number — in a parenthetical where the case is reported, and as the citation itself where it is not.1
- 1R. 10.8.3 Briefs, Court Filings, and Transcripts.
- 2A warning: the form is usually wrong under the rule in note 1, and context can justify it.