Court case

Works cited entry

Utah v. Evans. 536 US 452. Supreme Court of the US. 2002. Supreme Court Collection. Legal Information Inst., Cornell U Law School, n.d. Web. 30 Apr. 2008.

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Give the following information:

  • the title of the case, neither italicized nor in quotation marks (consisting of the first plaintiff and the first defendant, separated by “v.”)

  • the case number

  • the volume, name, and page number of the law report

  • the year of the decision

  • publication information as for a book or a short work from a Web site

Note

In the text of a paper, names of cases are italicized: Utah v. Evans.

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