Talk:Legal citation

Link to Manual of Style
There needs to be some way to get from here to Manual of Style (legal) and back. - maybe there should be some coordination between the two too. Doug. - DDHME 22:18, 18 August 2007 (UTC)


 * I came here looking for a template for case citation, so I made a link for that. I checked out the legal manual of style and I did not recognize anything there that could be useful for someone who searched for "citation" except the template, so I saw no need to do as you suggested.  Any thoughts?  Blue Rasberry  02:04, 17 April 2010 (UTC)

What a weird case to use as an example
Ehrlichman v. Sirica is a really weird case to use as an example because it is so obscure, and most people outside the U.S. would not know who those persons are. A superior, more internationally sensitive example would be one of the old English cases that all U.S., U.K., and Commonwealth lawyers know about, like Hadley v. Baxendale. --Coolcaesar (talk) 08:10, 27 February 2008 (UTC)


 * I completely agree. I've never seen (or cited) this type of case--a case where the Chief Justice is acting as a Circuit Judge and yet the case is reported in the U.S. reporter.  Also, according to the Bluebook, the parenthetical containing the judge/justice's name should appear after the date parenthetical.  I'm going to rework this page. --LegalSwoop (talk) 17:01, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

Merger with'case citation'?
Should this article not be merged with the one on 'case citation'? 128.243.253.101 (talk) 07:01, 6 May 2010 (UTC)

Dead link
There is a dead link that I failed to repair. 112.198.90.42 (talk) 11:08, 15 January 2014 (UTC)

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Merge Legal citation and Case citation
These are basically duplicate articles. "Legal citation" is even given in the lead of Case citation in bold as an alternative term, as if it already redirects there.

The better-developed content is at Case citation, but the more general name and thus the preferable title is Legal citation (which also covers citations of legal materials that are technically not legal cases, e.g. regulatory hearings, arbitrations, etc.).

This merge was proposed as long ago as 2010 but was not discussed at all. I'm listing it at WP:Proposed mergers this time, and also "advertising" this at WT:LAW so this pointless content fork gets resolved. — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ &gt;ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ&lt;  10:09, 3 December 2017 (UTC)


 * Merge – the articles cover essentially the same material, and I will be actioning the merge at some point in the next two weeks unless there is objection. Best, Kevin ( aka L235 ·&#32; t ·&#32; c) 05:27, 22 January 2018 (UTC)


 * reminding you of this one just in case you have a specific interest; otherwise, I'm sure that the merge will be done by someone else over the next few months. Klbrain (talk) 09:28, 9 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Unfortunately, this proposal is flawed. The citation of other types of legal sources is fundamentally different (as any user of the Bluebook knows), which is why there needs to be a separate article on legal citation in general.
 * The problem is that no one, myself included, has the time, energy, or interest to write up separate articles on statutory and regulatory citation. Those are basic skills taught in law school, but they are so mind-numbingly tedious that no one cares to write about them.  I suspect that the very few people who might actually care about those types of citation are too busy working as assistants to legislators or as legislators themselves.  --Coolcaesar (talk) 15:19, 10 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Given what appear to be an uncontested claim that these are distinct topics, I'll close the proposal. Klbrain (talk) 04:45, 7 May 2019 (UTC)