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Neutral Citation, Court Web Sites, And Access To Authoritative Case Law, Peter W. Martin
Neutral Citation, Court Web Sites, And Access To Authoritative Case Law, Peter W. Martin
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
In 1994, the Wisconsin Bar and the Wisconsin Judicial Council together urged the state’s supreme court to take two dramatic steps with the combined aim of improving access to state case law: adopt a new system of neutral format citation and establish a digital archive of decisions directly available to all publishers and the public. The recommendations set off a firestorm, and the court deferred decision on the package. In the dozen or so years since those events, the background conditions have shifted dramatically. Neutral format citation has been endorsed by AALL and the ABA and formally adopted in a …