Move weight of authority before the explanation
Warning2Federal courts, Illinois courts21st and 22nd editions
“(en banc) (holding that …)” — the weight-of-authority parenthetical precedes the explanatory one, which comes last before any prior or subsequent history.1
- 1R. 1.5(b) Order of parentheticals within a citation; R. 10.6.4 Order of Parentheticals; B1.3 Explanatory Parentheticals. Tables: R. 12.8 Explanatory Parenthetical Phrases.
- 2A warning: the form is usually wrong under the rule in note 1, and context can justify it.
More in Structure and signals
- Add a space between parentheticals
- Add the comma that closes the clause
- Lowercase the parenthetical's first word
- Move the explanation before the history
- Move the parentheticals into order
- Move weight of authority before the explanation
- Use one parenthetical for the sources
- Use sentence form in the parenthetical
- Use the source enumerators