If you are typing your citations without using LegalCitation software, make certain that the parallel citation is set off from
the primary citation with a comma, as illustrated in the LegalCitation preview.
If entered into the record, parallel citations will always be included in citations formatted by LegalCitation.
If you are frequently obliged
to format citations for different local courts, make certain that citations with parallel citations in the records
are formatted properly for the local court rules.
The initial page of the West unofficial reporter usually includes a parallel citation to the official reporter.
The initial page of most official reporters provide a citation to an unofficial reporter.
Cases retrieved on LEXIS and Westlaw often reprint the official reporter citation on the first page of the case.
Shepard’s citators include parallel citations for cases that have them. In Shepard’s parallel citations are enclosed in parentheses and are located at the top of the list of entries.
Many digests provide parallel citations.
In addition, it often is not necessary to consult both versions of the case to determine internal pagination. Instead, some reporters embed the pagination for the parallel reporter within the text of the case.
For example, opinions in permanent versions of the Supreme Court Reporter and the Lawyers’ Edition include references that allow you to determine how the case is paginated in United States Reports. In the Supreme Court Reporter, the United States Reports page numbers are located throughout the opinion and appear as subscript numbers. In the Lawyer’s Edition, United States Reports numbers appear in bold superscript and are enclosed in brackets.
