Template:Cite court

THIS TEMPLATE IS EXPERIMENTAL

Usage

{{cite court
  |litigants=
  |vol=
  |reporter=
  |opinion=
  |pinpoint=
  |court=
  |date=
  |url=
}}

• optional: litigants is the list of litigants, such as Miranda v. Arizona. If a Wikipedia article by that name exists a link to it will be made.

 ^-- this also should probably not be optional

• optional: vol is the volume of the reporter.
• optional: reporter is U.S. for U.S. Supreme Court's United States Reports.
• optional: opinion is the opinion number, often the page number for the case.
• optional: pinpoint is a specific holding. A page or paragraph number.
• optional: court is the court (such as "3d Cir." or "M.D. Ala."). Date is required in order to use court.

 ^-- this probably should NOT be optional

• optional: date is the date in which the court rendered its decision.
• optional: url is a URL with information on the case.
  • For a U.S. Supreme Court case, the URL to a Findlaw page is http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?navby=CASE&court=US&vol={{{vol}}}&page={{{page}}}

This template is based on information in the article Case citation '