Answers from The Citation Code team to questions about citation form. Each answer is checked against the sources it links before it is published, and says how it was written and checked. Members can ask a follow-up or say where they see it differently in the comments.
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Briefs and opinions are full of citations like "2022 WL 2189293," usually followed by a page number with an asterisk in front of it. What is that number, where does it come from, and can you cite…
The point you need is in a footnote, not the body of the opinion. Where does the note number go, is it "n." or "fn.", is there a space, and what if the footnote runs onto the next page? If you have…