Case Law Citation
Using citation analysis technique for analyzing legal documents facilitates the better understanding of the inter related regulatory compliance documents by the exploration of the citations that connect provisions to other provisions within the same document or between different documents.
Case law citation. If a case is published in a reporter the bluebook prescribes which reporter is the preferred one to cite table 1. Omissions in case names. As in the example above the abbreviated title of the reporter will be found in the citation. For cases from the united states use the abbreviations lexis.
Case name also known as the style of cause in italics. Abbreviations omissions used in citations. When writing for law journals or other legal publications these sources are not usually required to be cited in a bibliography or on a references page. When citing to a printed law reporter the traditional form of legal citation requires these elements.
A legal citation is a reference to a. Examples citations of. Use the following list to convert the abbreviation in your cite to a full reporter title. Words in case names.
Case law is law established by judicial decision in cases. Case citations are made up of three parts volume reporter designation and page number. Reporters courts. Following on from this from 2002 came the use of neutral citations where by each case was given a neutral citation to identify it.
The most common abbreviations for electronic case law services in canada include. For more on reporters see our case law research guide or watch anatomy of a case case citation and the case law reporter system in our case law research tutorial on the right. During a legal proceeding a legal citation analysis i e. Canlii ql for lexisnexis quicklaw and wl can for westlawnext canada.
Case citations are the unique citing reference given to each case referring to where the case is published in a book. Case name print reporter citation database identifier jurisdiction and other citation elements if relevant. Since the growth of electronic sources there have been unreported transcripts also available on all the major legal databases.