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Thanks.

When you want to omit citations.

There's not exactly a hard and fast rule. I use it when I'm quoting a part of a decision that has citations in the quoted material. If it's really important that the quoted material refer back to its own citations (say . . . you're wanting to show how a particular Court of Appeals is interpreting Supreme Court precedent), then you can add a citing parenthetical to your citation. If it's not particularly important that the reader know your quote is citing this other material, then omit the citations.

Usually when you feeling lazy and don't want to look it up.

romothesavior wrote:Usually when you feeling lazy and don't want to look it up.

But not when you want to stretch a one-line footnote out to two-lines to get to a minimum page requirement.

romothesavior wrote:Usually when you feeling lazy and don't want to look it up.

That or when there's a point of law in a case citing to like 3 cases and you don't feel like wasting 50 words of word count.

Flips88 wrote:

romothesavior wrote:Usually when you feeling lazy and don't want to look it up.

That or when there's a point of law in a case citing to like 3 cases and you don't feel like wasting 50 words of word count.

TTH got it right. If we're talking LR notes here, you cite all those mothas and maybe throw in two or three "See also" cases with some parentheticals to stretch it out.