subcite

Definitions

To review and verify the citations in an legal article.

ambitransitive

Examples

“On June 3, the games began. I joined the long line of two hundred 1Ls to pick⟳ up the 650-page packet containing the article to be subcited, the information for the case note⟳, and all the relevant cases.”

“In the admissions process⟳, interested candidates participate⟳ in a writing competition consisting of a 'subcite' component, which involves correcting errors in a short written piece and a commentary section in which applicants report⟳ and analyze a recent case before the United States Supreme Court. This week-long process⟳ takes place⟳ after the completion of first-year final exams in the spring⟳ semester.”

“One of the more stultifying rites of passage for entering law students is to "subcite," checking the citations within scholarship in progress⟳ to make⟳ sure they are in the exacting and byzantine form⟳ required by legal-citation standards, and, more directly, to make⟳ sure the source itself exists and says what the citing author says it says.”

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