Reference
Glossary
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- Allegation
- A party’s assertion, often in a pleading. Its appearance in a complaint does not make it a judicial finding. See Chapter 9.
- Annotated code
- A code publication with editorial features such as case notes. Separate those features from enacted statutory text. See Chapter 10.
- Bates number
- A production identifier used for discovery pages. It may need a separate filed-record locator. See Chapter 9.
- Block quotation
- A long quotation set apart and indented under the applicable format, without outer quotation marks. See Chapter 4.
- Case history
- Decisions and events within a litigation sequence. Distinguish them from unrelated later treatment. See Chapter 8.
- Citation clause
- A citation integrated into a textual sentence and set off by punctuation. It commonly supports a portion of the sentence. See Chapter 2.
- Citation sentence
- A separately punctuated citation following a supported proposition. See Chapter 2.
- Code
- An organized compilation of statutory or regulatory provisions. Identify which kind before choosing its pattern. See Chapters 10 and 12.
- Concurrence
- An opinion agreeing with a result while supplying reasoning that must be distinguished from the majority’s adopted reasoning. See Chapter 8.
- Court-assigned identifier
- A decision identifier in a neutral citation system; it is distinct from its paragraph pinpoint. See Chapter 7.
- Dissent
- An opinion disagreeing with the majority. Identify its status when using its reasoning. See Chapter 8.
- Docket entry
- A record item with a court-system identifier. An attachment may have its own identifier. See Chapter 9.
- Edition
- An identified publication version. Pagination and content can change across editions. See Chapter 14.
- Effective date
- The date a provision becomes operative, which can differ from enactment or publication. See Chapter 10.
- Explanatory parenthetical
- A parenthesized description of a source’s relevance, status, or supporting passage. See Chapter 3.
- First page
- The opening page identifying a reported decision or article. It is not interchangeable with a pinpoint. See Chapter 1.
- Full citation
- A source-specific citation supplying its necessary identifying information. See Chapter 5.
- History phrase
- An expression such as aff’d or rev’d describing a procedural event. See Chapter 8.
- House style
- A documented editorial preference subject to actual receiving requirements. See Chapter 16.
- Id
- A context-dependent short reference to one immediately preceding cited source. See Chapter 6.
- Local rule
- A receiving jurisdiction or institution’s applicable instruction. Verify its scope and current text. See Chapter 7.
- Model law
- Proposed text for adoption, distinct from a jurisdiction’s enacted version. See Chapter 11.
- Neutral citation
- A publisher-independent decision identification system, often combined with paragraph pinpoints. See Chapter 7.
- Nonprecedential
- A disposition status that must be distinguished from availability or permission to cite. See Chapter 7.
- Opinion type
- Majority, concurrence, dissent, plurality, or another identified role. See Chapter 8.
- Parallel citation
- Identification of the same source in another required or useful publication/system. Corresponding pinpoints require verification. See Chapter 7.
- Pinpoint
- A precise page, paragraph, section, line, timestamp, or other real locator for the passage used. Also called a pincite. See Chapter 4.
- Preamble
- Introductory material or explanation; a regulatory preamble must be distinguished from codified commands. See Chapter 12.
- Proposition
- The factual or legal claim a sentence makes. Check its support separately from source formatting. See Chapter 17.
- Reporter
- A publication collecting judicial decisions. Its series is part of its identity. See Chapter 5.
- Restatement
- A legal-doctrine synthesis whose adoption and force require separate research. See Chapter 11.
- Retrieval date
- When a source was accessed, distinct from publication, enactment, and effective dates. See Chapter 15.
- Session law
- A publication of legislation as enacted, useful for enactments, uncodified text, and historical work. See Chapter 13.
- Short form
- A source-specific shortened citation relying on clear earlier identification. See Chapter 6.
- Signal
- A term identifying the relationship between a proposition and cited material. See Chapter 3.
- Slip opinion
- An issued opinion outside or before its bound reporter version. Its locator must be updated appropriately if replaced. See Chapter 7.
- Source card
- A research record preserving identity, version, passage, proposition, access, and limits. See Chapter 1.
- Star pagination
- Database pagination marked with an asterisk; it is not a court-assigned paragraph number. See Chapter 7.
- Subsequent treatment
- Later material discussing or affecting an authority, potentially outside its own litigation history. See Chapter 8.
- Supra
- An eligible cross-reference to an earlier full citation, subject to source-specific limits. See Chapter 6.
- Uniform act
- Text drafted for adoption across jurisdictions; each enactment may differ. See Chapter 11.
- Verification scope
- A description of what was actually checked and what remains unresolved. See Chapter 17.