Cleaning Up Quotations

J. Metzler
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Lawyers use a lot of quotations in their writing. And judges are lawyers who are just as enamored with quotations in their writing as the rest of us. So it often turns out that the best quotation for a proposition is one in which a judge has quoted some other judge, and there's a good chance that judge was quoting yet another.The Bluebook dictates how to cite the original source of quoted material, how to indicate that the quotation contains a quotation, and how to show any alterations to the immediate source or the original source. But once the quotation contains a quotation, the Bluebook rules often mean that good quotes quickly acquire a significant amount of citation baggage that makes it difficult to use them without significantly distracting from the author's point or increasing the author's work for little substantive gain. The paper proposes that legal writers discard all that baggage and adopt a new parenthetical, "(cleaned up)," to tell readers that they have removed extraneous material for readability and guarantee that nothing removed was important.
清理报价
律师在写作中引用了大量的引文。法官是律师,他们和我们其他人一样迷恋于他们写作中的引文。所以,一个命题的最佳引语往往是法官引用了另一个法官的话,而这个法官很有可能又引用了另一个法官的话。蓝皮书规定了如何引用引用材料的原始来源,如何表明引用中包含引用,以及如何显示对直接来源或原始来源的任何更改。但是,一旦引文中包含引文,蓝皮书规则通常意味着,好的引文很快就会获得大量的引用包袱,这使得使用它们变得困难,而不会明显分散作者的观点,或者增加作者的工作,但收效不大。这篇论文建议法律作者抛弃所有的包袱,采用一个新的括号,“(清理)”,告诉读者他们为了可读性而删除了无关的材料,并保证删除的东西都不重要。
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