If Sir Arthur Conan Doyle were writing, it would be called “The Mysterious Case of the Supreme Court’s Missing, Official Pinpoint Citation.”

“Pin cites,” as any lawyer knows, or will recall after a short memory jog, direct the reader of a court opinion to the specific page within a case. For example, in Jones, 520 U.S. 360, 375, the second number after “U.S.” is the pin cite, or sometimes “pincite.”

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