In contrast to Canada,
where neutral citation has been widely adopted for caselaw, the practice is still not very widespread South of the border:
Not exact matches
As you can see, preference is given to the
neutral citation (
where available), but a parallel
citation to another print reporter is generally required.
The true revolution in
citation practice was the development of the
neutral citation; this is
where we find uniformity and clarity.
Following on from this (from 2002) came the use of
neutral citations where by each case was given a
neutral citation to identify it.
He proposed a universal
citation style similar to the modern
neutral legal
citation,
where opinions issuing from courts would have official sequential numbers, independent from any trademark or corporate name given by a private law report publisher.