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Originally Posted by Shoonra
I don't recall - perhaps you can provide an example - seeing a US Supreme Court decision that says "citation withheld".
On the other hand, I have seen, often, "citation omitted" -- but used only when quoting verbatim from something, usually an earlier court decision, which is itself identified and which can be looked up to find all the citations that were glossed over in the court's quotation.
Not so much a "refusal" as just skipping distracting details when making a quotation.
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Is that the best you can do shoonra? 'Withheld', 'omitted', what is the difference? Is the citation available in those cases? More often than not, when the expression is used by the courts, they don't even reference the case name.
Jerry Carlos
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