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case citation

case citation noun: a combination of numbers and abbreviations used in common law countries to identify an opinion of a court, including the names of the parties, case reporter, name of the court, and year of the decision, and sometimes the page of the opinion that is cited.

Noun

case citation (plural case citations)

  1. A combination of numbers and abbreviations used in common law countries to identify an opinion of a court, including the names of the parties, case reporter, name of the court, and year of the decision, and sometimes the page of the opinion that is cited.

Forms of case citation

pluralcase citations

Origin of case citation

From case + citation.

Questions about case citation

What does case citation mean?
Case citation means a combination of numbers and abbreviations used in common law countries to identify an opinion of a court, including the names of the parties, case reporter, name of the court, and year of the decision, and sometimes the page of the opinion that is cited.
What part of speech is case citation?
Case citation is a noun.
What is the plural of case citation?
The plural of case citation is case citations.

Words near case citation in the dictionary

  1. case and point
  2. case badge
  3. case badges
  4. case book
  5. case books
  6. case citation
  7. case citations
  8. case clock
  9. case clocks
  10. case closed
  11. case dependent

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Adapted from Wiktionary: case citation (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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