Remove the inner quotation marks
Warning2Federal courts, Illinois courts21st and 22nd editions
Where the inner quotation is the whole of the outer one, its marks come out: “the statute’s text is plain and ends the inquiry.”, not “‘the statute’s text …’”.1
- Wrong
- ‘the statute’s text …’
- Right
- the statute’s text is plain and ends the inquiry.
- 1R. 5.2(f)(i) Internal quotation marks; B5.1 Generally. Tables: R. 5.2(f)(ii) Internal quotation marks; R. 5.1(b)(i) Indentation and quotation marks.
- 2A warning: the form is usually wrong under the rule in note 1, and context can justify it.
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