Court opinions
Cite a decision of the D.C. Court of Appeals with the case name, the reporter citation, and a parenthetical that gives the year, adding the state’s abbreviation when the reporter is a regional one.
The examples below use A.2d and A.3d.
The book’s Table A lists District of Columbia’s courts, reporters and citation rules.
Each citation is printed as the book prints it, from an authority the book checked against its source.
Wilson-Bey v. United States, 903 A.2d 818 (D.C. 2006) (en banc).
The authority
Ross v. United States, 331 A.3d 220 (D.C. 2025).
The authority
Where the book teaches this