Glossary and Subject Finder

Term	Working meaning	Read
Antecedent	Earlier reference that gives a short form its identity	Chapter 8
Citation cluster	Provider grouping of related opinion records and metadata	Chapter 15
Citation permission	Whether a source may be cited in the receiving setting	Chapter 2
Codification	Organization of legal provisions in a code	Chapter 9
Court requirement	Instruction attributable to a specified applicable rule	Chapter 2
Docket entry	An item in a case's procedural record	Chapter 11
Edition	A particular published version of a work	Chapter 12
Effective date	Date on which a provision begins to operate, subject to its terms	Chapters 9 and 10
First page	Beginning page of a reported source	Chapter 5
House practice	Citation Code's editorial choice where no controlling instruction displaces it	Using this reference
Neutral citation	Court-assigned decision identifier independent of a reporter's volume/page	Chapter 4
Parallel citation	Another publication identifier for the same decision	Chapter 4
Pinpoint	Locator for the particular passage used	Chapter 5
Precedential weight	The authority a decision carries in the relevant setting	Chapter 2
Proposition	Claim for which the writer supplies support	Chapter 1
Provenance	Record of where material came from and how it was transformed	Chapter 15
Record citation	Reference to litigation evidence or procedural material	Chapter 11
Retrieval date	Date on which the researcher obtained the material	Chapter 3
Separate opinion	A concurrence, dissent, or other opinion distinct from the lead opinion	Chapter 4
Short form	Abbreviated reference dependent on a clear full identification	Chapter 8
Signal	Introductory expression describing the source's relationship to a proposition	Chapter 6
Slip opinion	Issued opinion in a preliminary publication form	Chapter 4
Snapshot	Dataset or publication copy preserved at a stated time	Chapter 15
Source packet	Saved source, metadata, link, and proposition notes	Chapter 3
Table of authorities	Navigation table locating cited authorities within the submitted document	Chapter 16

Work by stage: first-year writing, journal work, moot court, clinics, and practice teams — chapter 14. Quote review: alterations, emphasis, block layout, and OCR — chapter 7. Unfamiliar materials: treaties, international decisions, foreign judgments, translations, and Tribal sources — chapter 13. Final review: support, locators, short forms, tables, export, and errata — chapter 16.