Citations

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These fields allow us to add legal citation information to documents, particularly judicial opinions.

The basic format of a case citation is: (volume) (reporter) (page number) – e.g. 372 U.S. 335. A reporter is a publication containing judicial opinions, limited to a set of courts, and it organizes the opinions chronologically. The volume number indicates which volume of the reporter, and the page number indicates the starting page of the opinion. A reporters used to be a series of books – now everything is online, but the old system remains. Periodically, we add new reporters to our system.

Individual opinions can have multiple citations in different reporters, some of which lawyers will prefer to cite over others. We often collect multiple citations for a given opinion, with Citation 1 being the typically most preferred and Citation 3 being the least.

Note: Not all of our reporter abbreviations match Bluebook abbreviations.

citation_status

(string)

The status of the citation information. There are a several possible values for this field:

Value

Description

For more information on the various reporters, see below.

cite_1_vol

(number)

The volume number for Citation 1. If there is no citation for Citation 1, this field is null.

cite_1_reporter

(string)

The reporter for Citation 1. If there is no citation for Citation 1, this field is null.

Citation 1 is for our preferred reporters, which include several types of reporters:

Full list of reporters for Citation 1

A.2d
A.3d
A.D.2d
A.D.3d
Ark.
B.R.
Cal.App. 3d
Cal.App.4th
Cal.App. 5th
Cal.Rptr.
Cal.Rptr.2d
F.2d
F.3d
F.4th
Fed.Appx.
Fed.R.Serv.3d
F.R.D.
F.Supp.
F.Supp.2d
F.Supp.3d
Mass.
Mass. L. Rptr.
Misc.2d
Misc.3d
N.E.2d
N.E.3d
N.W.2d
N.Y.S.2d
P.2d
P.3d
S.E.2d
So.2d
So.3d
S.W.2d
S.W.3d
U.S.
Vet.App.
Wash. App.
W.Va.
Mich.

cite_1_page

(number)

The page number for Citation 1. If there is no citation for Citation 1, this field is null.

cite_2_vol

(number)

The volume number for Citation 2. For Westlaw citations, the volume is the year of the opinion. If there is no citation for Citation 2, this field is null.

cite_2_reporter

(string)

The reporter for Citation 2. If there is no citation for Citation 2, this field is null.

These are not the most preferred reporters, but many lawyers prefer them to those in Citation 3 (see cite_3_reporter). There are only two options for Citation 2:

cite_2_page

(number)

The page number for Citation 2. If there is no citation for Citation 2, this field is null.

cite_3_vol

(number)

The volume number for Citation 3. For Lexis citations, the volume is the year of the opinion. If there is no citation for Citation 3, this field is null.

cite_3_reporter

(string)

The reporter for Citation 3. If there is no citation for Citation 3, this field is null.

These are the reporters we prefer not to use (and don't often collect). There are two types of reporters for Citation 3:

Full list of reporters for Citation 3

Ala.App.LEXIS
Ala.Civ.App.LEXIS
Ala.LEXIS
Alas.LEXIS
Ariz.App.LEXIS
Ariz.LEXIS
Ark.App.LEXIS
Ark.LEXIS
Cal.App.LEXIS
Cal.App.Unpub.LEXIS
Cal.LEXIS
Colo.App.LEXIS
Colo.LEXIS
Conn.App.LEXIS
Conn.Cir.LEXIS
Conn.LEXIS
Conn.Super.LEXIS
D.C.App.LEXIS
D.C.Super.LEXIS
Del.Ch.LEXIS
Del.LEXIS
Del.Super.LEXIS
Fla.App.LEXIS
Fla.LEXIS
Ga.App.LEXIS
Ga.LEXIS
GuamLEXIS
Haw.App.LEXIS
Haw.LEXIS
Ida.App.LEXIS
Ida.LEXIS
Ill.App.LEXIS
Ill.LEXIS
Ind.App.LEXIS
Ind.LEXIS
IowaApp.LEXIS
IowaSup.LEXIS
Kan.App.LEXIS
Kan.LEXIS
Ky.App.LEXIS
Ky.LEXIS
La.App.LEXIS
La.LEXIS
L.Ed.
L.Ed.2d
Mass.App.Div.LEXIS
Mass.App.LEXIS
Mass.LEXIS
Mass.Super.LEXIS
Md.App.LEXIS
Md.LEXIS
Me.LEXIS
Me.Super.LEXIS
Mich.App.LEXIS
Mich.LEXIS
Minn.App.LEXIS
Minn.LEXIS
Miss.App.LEXIS
Miss.LEXIS
Mo.App.LEXIS
Mo.LEXIS
Mont.Dist.LEXIS
Mont.LEXIS
N.C.App.LEXIS
N.C.LEXIS
N.D.App.LEXIS
N.D.LEXIS
Neb.App.LEXIS
Neb.LEXIS
Nev.LEXIS
N.H.LEXIS
N.J.LEXIS
N.J.Sup.Ct.LEXIS
N.J.Super.LEXIS
N.M.App.LEXIS
N.Mar.I.LEXIS
N.M.LEXIS
N.Y.App.Div.LEXIS
N.Y.LEXIS
N.Y.Misc.LEXIS
OhioApp.LEXIS
OhioLEXIS
Okla.Civ.App.LEXIS
Okla.LEXIS
Pa.LEXIS
Pa.Super.LEXIS
PRApp.LEXIS
PRSup.LEXIS
R.I.LEXIS
R.I.Super.LEXIS
S.C.App.LEXIS
S.C.LEXIS
S.D.LEXIS
Tenn.App.LEXIS
Tenn.LEXIS
Tex.App.LEXIS
Tex.LEXIS
U.S.App.LEXIS
U.S.Dist.LEXIS
UtahApp.LEXIS
UtahLEXIS
Va.App.LEXIS
Va.LEXIS
V.I.LEXIS
Vt.LEXIS
Wash.App.LEXIS
Wash.LEXIS
Wisc.App.LEXIS
Wisc.LEXIS
W.Va.LEXIS
Wyo.LEXIS

cite_3_page

(number)

The page number for Citation 3. If there is no citation for Citation 3, this field is null.

per_curiam

(boolean)

If the opinion was issued per curiam, which is Latin for "for the court." This means that the opinion wasn't authored by an individual judge.

citation_paren

(string)

Information following a citation giving the reader extra information about its context. We rarely use them, so citation_paren is often null.

Here are the other options: