There is empirical evidence that
judicial opinions cite law review articles less often now than in earlier decades.
When
a judicial opinion cites to a prior case, the citation often includes a parenthetical that summarizes the prior case's legal substance.
Not exact matches
Kennedy's
opinion has been
cited as authoritative in virtually every one of these
judicial actions.
«In 2012 alone over 250
judicial opinions — more than double the number in 2007 —
cited defendants arguing in some form or another that their «brains made them do it,»» according to an analysis by Nita Farahany, a law professor and director of Duke University's Initiative for Science and Society.
«Adding law review citations to
judicial opinions helps us rank search results more intelligently, for example, giving a relevance boost to cases that aren't
cited by courts, but are
cited by law review articles.
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Cited in
Judicial Opinions
Roberts
cited a rare neurological disability when he retired, according to the
opinion by the Committee on
Judicial Conduct and Disability.
Many times, courts will lift string -
cites and parentheticals from other
judicial opinions, with a notation such as «
cited in...» Is that plagiarism — or precedent?
These days, a blog post is just as likely to garner a
cite in a
judicial opinion as a law review article.
Greene has not
cited — and the Court has not found — a single statute, regulation, rule, or
judicial opinion holding that a litigant has a right of access (under the First Amendment, the common law, or anything else) to communications between a judge and his or her law clerk, including draft
opinions and orders.
They get their lustrous credential to put on that résumé that will land them the
judicial clerkships where they will get more experience working on
judicial opinions — those lengthy, obfuscatory
judicial opinions that fail to
cite law review articles».
An Oklahoma law professor's research on the use of song lyrics in legal writing found that the popular artist whose lyrics are most often
cited in legal journals and
judicial opinions is Bob Dylan, followed in rank by The Beatles, Bruce Springsteen, Paul Simon, Woody Guthrie, Rolling Stones, Grateful Dead, Simon & Garfunkel, Joni Mitchell and R.E.M.
The author of this article requested that the California Court of Appeal, Fourth District, Division Two (Riverside) take
judicial notice of an unpublished
opinion cited solely for any pursuasive value the case may have in a pending appeal.
In this conflict, the
judicial notice statute should take precedence, and courts should allow unpublished
opinions to be
cited as persuasive authority.
Justice Kagan, delivering the
opinion of the Court and
citing Stolt - Nielsen S. A. v. AnimalFeeds Int» l Corp., 559 U. S. 662, 684 (2010), concluded that the arbitrator's decision survives the limited
judicial review § 10 (a)(4) allows.
Delivering the unanimous
opinion of the Court and
citing Stolt - Nielsen S. A. v. AnimalFeeds Int» l Corp., 559 U. S. 662, 684 (2010), Justice Kagan concluded that the arbitrator's decision survives the limited
judicial review § 10 (a)(4) allows.
Concededly, the
Judicial Branch website does provide prompt access to the original «slip
opinions,» but these lack the editorial revisions that occur later during the publication process and also, of at least equal importance, they lack the volume and page numbers by which specific holdings of those cases must be
cited in any subsequent legal proceeding.
It has a citator to find subsequent
judicial opinions that have
cited your case.