Publication Title
The Role of Citation in the Law
Page
667
Year
2022
Abstract
This article shows the continued need for the adoption of a universal, medium- and vendor-neutral citation format by examining how negative case treatment can be discerned algorithmically from Bluebook signals. Although traditional citations to case reporters are treated as machine-readable identifiers by contemporary research databases, the shortcomings of this format result in unnecessary errors and lag time in citators that discern negative treatment information from Bluebook-formatted citations alone. By adopting a universal citation format, as well as a small set of citation "best practices, " we would see significant improvements in these kinds of purely algorithmic citators. The greater the amount of standardized, machine-identifiable information packed into each citation, the better case law databases will be across the board, with free and low-cost databases especially poised to benefit.
Recommended Citation
Andrew J. Martineau, Garbage In, Garbage Out: Improved Citators Through Improved Citations, The Role of Citation in the Law 667 (2022), available at https://scholarship.law.umn.edu/faculty_articles/1199.
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