Re: [legalcitem-courts] Usecase--US Federal Courts draft

[Brian Carver <brian.carver@documentengineeringservices.com>]

John,

This is excellent work. When my students worked on the CourtListener
citator we learned that the Bluebook has done much to standardize
citation practices, but that prior to it taking hold, things were a bit
all over the map. Being merely descriptive of what one may find in court
opinions, here's an example I often share from our experience dealing
with this, wherein the very same case was cited at least this many
different ways:

Ingle v. Landis Tool Co. (C.C.A.) 272 F. 464
Ingle v. Landis Tool Co., 272 Fed. 464 (3d Cir. 1921)
Ingle v. Landis Tool Co., (CCA 3d Cir. 1921) 272 Fed. 464
Ingle v. Landis Tool Co., 272 F. 464 (3d Cir. 1921)
Ingle v. Landis Tool Co., 272 Fed. 464 (3rd Circ., 1921)
Ingle v. Landis Tool Co., 272 Fed. 464 (C. C. A. 3d, 1921)

Do we intend to propose a markup scheme that will enable people to
accommodate all this sort of variety?

Brian

On 12/10/2014 01:34 PM, John Quentin Heywood wrote:
> Hey folks,
> 
> Following our meeting last week, and John Joergensen's gentle chiding
> that perhaps we were getting too much into the weeds and needed to be
> much simpler in approach, I said I would undertake an attempt to write
> something up about US federal court citations. I have made a stab at it,
> which is attached below. Please let me know what you think, good or bad.
> Am I on the right track? I will post it to the doc depository on OASIS
> as well.
> 
> John
> 
> 
> 
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