Template:Cite court
Revision as of 22:53, 12 February 2008 by imported>Kevinp2 (→Usage: Added sections Example and References)
THIS TEMPLATE IS EXPERIMENTAL. For the time being, it is better to manually type out court citations rather than rely on this template.
Usage
{{cite court
|litigants=
|vol=
|reporter=
|opinion=
|pinpoint=
|court=
|date=
|url=
}}
- optional: litigants is the list of litigants, such as Miranda v. Arizona. If a Wikipedia article by that name exists a link to it will be made.
^-- this also should probably not be optional
- optional: vol is the volume of the reporter.
- optional: reporter is U.S. for U.S. Supreme Court's United States Reports.
- optional: opinion is the opinion number, often the page number for the case.
- optional: pinpoint is a specific holding. A page or paragraph number.
- optional: court is the court (such as "3d Cir." or "M.D. Ala."). Date is required in order to use court.
^-- this probably should NOT be optional
- optional: date is the date in which the court rendered its decision.
- optional: url is a URL with information on the case.
- For a U.S. Supreme Court case, the URL to a Findlaw page is http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?navby=CASE&court=US&vol={{{vol}}}&page={{{page}}}
Example
See the Talk Page for an example.
References
This template is based on information in the article Case citation '