Citation Examples

This page lists examples showing (hopefully) every possible variation of correct legal citations, copied directly from actual case decisions. These examples will be helpful for testing citation parsers.

Please add examples to this page, but only if they differ in some important way from the examples that are already here.

U.S. Supreme Court

United States v. Nixon, 418 U.S. 683 (1974)

Harlow v. Fitzgerald, 457 U.S. 800, 811 n.17 (1982)

Federal Appeals Courts

United States v. Winner, 641 F.2d 825, 830 (10th Cir. 1981)

Armstrong v. Executive Office of President, 821 F. Supp. 761, 768 (D.D.C. 1993), rev'd, 1 F.3d 1274, 1289 (D.C. Cir. 1993) (per curiam)

In re United States, 985 F.2d 510, 511-12 (11th Cir.) (per curiam), cert. denied, 510 U.S. 989 (1993)

Federal District Courts

Sierra Club v. Ruckelshaus, 602 F. Supp. 892, 903 (N.D. Cal. 1984)

State Supreme Courts

State Appeals Courts