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A series of references to cases that establish legal precedents and to other authorities that appear one after another and are printed following a legal assertion or conclusion as supportive authority.

For example, in preparing a brief, an attorney might set forth a particular assertion based upon the facts of the case and applicable law and immediately thereafter make a list of all the cases that lend support to it.



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An explanatory parenthetical can briefly explain the proposition for which the case stands and is particularly useful in string citations.
Avoid the law review style of string citations with the holding in parentheses.
True, it gets mentioned, but generally in string citations supporting the proposition that questions of motivation are complicated and have spawned some literature.
 
 
 
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