In most U.S. jurisdictions, including the federal courts, there are no directives that can reasonably be construed as requiring the use of The Bluebook's
case name abbreviations.
Illinois style restricts
case name abbreviations to «Association» and ten other words.
They include such matters as
case name abbreviations, the identification of a writer's online source for cited primary authority, the format and content of treatise citations, and inclusion of a currency date in citations to statutes or regulations.
Not exact matches
I mostly provide both (full and
abbreviation) but may have omitted the full
name in some
cases.
The
abbreviations following the states and District of Columbia in table T1.3 have been revised to follow the
abbreviation convention for jurisdiction
names in the date parenthetical of
cases.
I use this not only to correct the common mistakes I make in typing but for the
names of clients, common
abbreviations, acronyms,
case names, citations,
names of statutes, etc..
Rather than imposing a set of its own
abbreviation rules, the Oregon manual incorporates those of the cited jurisdiction by providing that
case names be drawn from the running heads of the
case's official reporter or failing that the regional reporter in which it appears.
(Striking a very different balance, The University of Chicago Manual of Legal Citation pronounces that «
Abbreviations in
case names are rarely used.»)