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Citation rules/Cases/10.5 Date or Year

Remove the comma before the parenthetical

Error2Federal courts, Illinois courts21st and 22nd editions

The court-and-date parenthetical follows the pincite after a space, with no comma: “477 U.S. 242, 247 (1986)”.1

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  1. 1R. 10.5 Date or Year; B10.1 Full Citation; R. 16.4 Consecutively Paginated Journals; T1.2 Federal Administrative and Executive Materials.
  2. 2An error: the rule in note 1 allows one form, and this is not it.
PreviousAdd the year of decisionNextAdd the pincite to the quoted case

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  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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  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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