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Cite a court judgment Template parameters [Edit template data] Parameter Description Type Status Litigants litigants The title of the case. If a Wikipedia article using this exact string exists, a link will automatically be created. Alternately, if an article exists but another name is desired for display, a wikilink may be specified; i.e., "[[Case article|This v. That]]". Example Miranda v ...
This template formats a citation to a court case using the provided bibliographic information (such as author and title) as well as various formatting options. Template parameters [Edit template data] This template prefers inline formatting of parameters. Parameter Description Type Status Reporter reporter publisher institution Name of the reporter; displays after case name Example ...
USC via Cornell: when citing one of a series of USC sections, where it would be redundant to display the full citation for each section, this template can be used to display only the section number. {{United States Code subsection}}, {} Title: Section: Up to 6 levels of "sub"
United States Reports, the official reporter of the Supreme Court of the United States. Case citation is a system used by legal professionals to identify past court case decisions, either in series of books called reporters or law reports, or in a neutral style that identifies a decision regardless of where it is reported.
3 Field requests: Case number, ECF number, filer, title, multi-field date Field requests: Case number, ECF number, filer, title, multi-field date
Articles on cases that are primarily notable for the legal precedent they set, or are primarily discussed within legal scholarship, should be titled according to the legal citation convention for the jurisdiction that handled the case. However, do not adjust a name that is common within legal citations to conform with contemporary style guides.
A brief summary of the questions that were presented to the Supreme Court in the case's petition. These are typically listed in numerical order in the petition to the court in the case docket. This field should be filled in while the case is in progress, but can be removed after the decision is issued.
It's good practice to add categories for the specific kinds of case law the case represents. The categorization structure is a mess, but Category:United States federal case law is pretty much top-level. The template automatically adds the appropriate Chief Justice category, but remember that not all of their tenures were contiguous. Sometimes ...