Standing or individual order
Original research draft · October 2026
Working pattern
[Court/judge], [Order or practice title] § [section] ([date]), [URL or docket].
Capture from the source
Issuing judge/court; order; version; applicability; section
Check before you use it
Determine whether the order applies to the case and whether a case-specific order modifies it.
Common error: A judge's prior standing order can remain indexed after replacement.
Completed example
Judge, court, orders, exhibit instructions, and docket entry are fictional. This is a source-priority exercise, not a statement of actual chambers practice.
Judge Rowan Vale, Northmere Eastern Trial Court, Standing Order for Civil Hearings § 3 (Jan. 6, 2025), TRAIN-R46 packet, as modified for the hearing by docket entry TRAIN-18.
Read the supplied source facts
Fictional packet TRAIN-R46 supplies Judge Rowan Vale's Standing Order for Civil Hearings in the Northmere Eastern Trial Court, issued January 6, 2025. Section 3 describes exhibit copies. A former 2022 standing order remains on an archive page. In the assigned case, a February 18 case-specific order changes the number of copies for a scheduled hearing and expressly says that its instruction controls for that hearing. The assignment concerns that hearing. The packet includes both standing orders and the case-specific order, allowing the writer to distinguish general practice from the tailored direction. The case-specific docket entry is identified as TRAIN-18.
Why this works
Identify the judge, court, title, section, and version so the instruction can be located. The general standing order remains useful context, but the filing checklist must account for the expressly controlling case-specific modification. A search engine's archived 2022 result cannot establish present practice. The source card should state which case and hearing each instruction reaches, not merely collect all documents carrying the judge's name. Read the modification's scope carefully: changing the number of copies for one hearing does not necessarily replace every other provision of the standing order.
When the facts change
If the case is reassigned, check the new judge's applicable practices and any reassignment order before carrying forward the old checklist. If a later standing order replaces the January version, inspect its treatment of already scheduled hearings. A citation can name the correct standing order yet still support the wrong instruction when an applicable case order has modified that instruction.
Apply the receiving court or publication’s requirements. These working forms do not establish citation permission, precedential weight, or support for a legal proposition.