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Citation rules/Cases/10.5 Date or Year

Add the decision date beside the court

Error2Federal courts, Illinois courts21st and 22nd editions

A case whose only source is a newspaper takes the month, day and year of decision in its court parenthetical; the paper’s own cover date dates the report, not the ruling.1

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  1. 1R. 10.5(b) Decisions published in other sources. Tables: R. 16.6 Newspapers; R. 10.5(c) Pending cases and cases dismissed without opinion.
  2. 2An error: the rule in note 1 allows one form, and this is not it.
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  1. Abbreviate the case name
  2. Abbreviate the procedural phrase
  3. Abbreviate the state in the party name
  4. Add a comma after the case name
  5. Add a procedural phrase to the case name
  6. Add the date of decision
  7. Add the decision date beside the court
  8. Add the year of decision
  9. Remove the comma before the parenthetical

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