Add the docket number
Warning2Federal courts, Illinois courts21st and 22nd editions
A slip opinion cited in full names its docket number after the case name, because there is no reporter volume to locate the decision; the short form does not repeat it.1
- 1R. 10.8.1(b) Cases available in slip opinions; B10.1.4 Pending and Unreported Cases. Tables: R. 10.9(a)(iii) Slip opinions.
- 2A warning: the form is usually wrong under the rule in note 1, and context can justify it.