[Tutor] Picking up citations

Kent Johnson kent37 at tds.net
Tue Feb 10 19:57:46 CET 2009


On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 12:42 PM, Dinesh B Vadhia
<dineshbvadhia at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Kent
>
> The citation without the name is perfect (and this appears to be how most
> citation parsers work).  There are two issues in the test run:
>
> 1.  The parallel citation 422 U.S. 490, 499 n. 10, 95 S.Ct. 2197, 2205 n.
> 10, 45 L.Ed.2d 343 (1975) is resolved as:
>
> 422 U.S. 490 (1975)
> 499 n. 10 (1975)
> 95 S.Ct. 2197 (1975)
> 2205 n. 10 (1975)
> 45 L.Ed.2d 343 (1975)
>
> instead of as:
>
> 422 U.S. 490, 499 n. 10 (1975)
> 95 S.Ct. 2197, 2205 n. 10 (1975)
> 45 L.Ed.2d 343 (1975)
>
> ie. parsing the second page references should pick up all alphanumeric chars
> between the commas.

So 499 n. 10 is a page reference? I can't pick up all alphanumeric
chars between commas, that would include a second reference.

Kent


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