Case Citations
All case names in citations or in textual sentences must use one of these two formats.
What are italics or underscore?
These CSM Rules can help you cite a California statute in full.
What are CSM Rules 2:6-2:8?
Professor Co has a strong dislike for this Chinese restaurant that is often found in shopping mall food courts.
What is Panda Express? (Exactly.)
Use the citation: Co v. Croxall, 45 Cal. App. 4th 450 (2002). The 45 represents?
What is the volume of the case reporter?
U.S.C. stands for and contains these kinds of statutes.
What is the United States Code, the official statutory code for federal statutes?
The name of Lucy Tran's parents who are coming to visit her after the arrival of her new baby this year. They plan to leave their firearm at home in west Texas.
Who are Noah and Sakura?
You can find abbreviations for case names (e.g., Company, Incorporated, etc.) citations in this ALWD Appendix.
What is Appendix 3(E)?
This ALWD Rule contains examples of how to cite to state statutes in full, including statutes from Westlaw and Lexis.
What is ALWD Rule 14.4(a)?
We used this famous children's book to learn the difference between facts, inferences, and characterizations when we learned how to write an objective Statement of Facts.
What is The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss?
These are the reporters for the U.S. District Courts, the U.S. Courts of Appeals, and the U.S. Supreme Court.
What are:
The Federal Supplement
The Federal Reporter
The United States Reports
These are the two published statutory codes in California.
What are:
West's Annotated California Codes
Deering's California Codes Annotated
These are the nine U.S. Supreme Court Justices.
Who are Chief Justice Roberts, Justice Thomas, Justice Alito, Justice Sotomayor, Justice Kagan, Justice Gorsuch, Justice Kavanaugh, Justice Barrett, and Justice Jackson?
Official case reporters have this indicator symbol in the AWLD book.
What are red stars?
This is the ALWD Rule for short citations for statutes.
What is ALWD Rule 14.5?
Professor Co regularly references these two local Mexican restaurants when discussing legal reasoning, including analogical reasoning and rule-based reasoning.
What are Ernesto's and Zocalo's?