STYLE MANUAL FOR THE SUPREME AND APPELLATE COURTS OF ILLINOIS FIFTH EDITION (2017) Copyright © 2017 by Supreme Court, State of Illinois, and Reporter of Decisions, State of Illinois All rights reserved. PREFACE This edition of the Style Manual for the Supreme and Appellate Courts of Illinois has been revised from prior editions with two specific goals: (1) providing more guidance on the grammar and mechanics conventions already employed in the publication of opinions from Illinois courts of review and (2) documenting citation styles already in use but not previously provided in the style manual. The longtime practice to generally follow the standards of The Bluebook, A Uniform System of Citation, continues with the Bluebook’s twentieth edition. The ongoing project to eliminate variances between this style manual and the Bluebook, where prudent to do so, continues; variances from Bluebook practices are noted. Special attention has been devoted to allowing a more robust use of id. with Illinois statutes, to clarifying the rules for captions and headings, to clarifying the effect of postfiling revisions, and to providing easily searchable and printable references for citation forms. The capitalization policy has been substantially revised for clarity and to align with more typical conventions. This edition applies to opinions filed on or after January 1, 2018. -ii- TABLE OF CONTENTS PREFACE .............................................................................................................................. ii TABLE OF CONTENTS ..................................................................................................... iii I. STRUCTURING AN OPINION ......................................................................................... 1 A. Procedural Case Information ......................................................................................... 1 B. Party Information ........................................................................................................... 1 (1) All Parties Listed....................................................................................................... 1 (2) Proper Order Required .............................................................................................. 1 (3) Appeals From Administrative Agencies ................................................................... 3 (4) Official Capacity ....................................................................................................... 3 (5) Illinois Department and Director Titles .................................................................... 3 (6) Use of “The” in Caption ........................................................................................... 4 (7) Abbreviations ............................................................................................................ 4 C. Cause of Action Information ......................................................................................... 5 D. Court Panel Information ................................................................................................ 8 (1) Opinions .................................................................................................................... 9 (2) Rule 23 Orders ........................................................................................................ 10 E. Body ............................................................................................................................. 11 (1) Rule 23 Syllabi ........................................................................................................ 11 (2) Headings ................................................................................................................. 11 (3) Background ............................................................................................................. 13 (4) Analysis................................................................................................................... 14 (5) Conclusion/Mandate Paragraph .............................................................................. 14 (6) Judgment Lines ....................................................................................................... 14 (7) Supreme Court Review ........................................................................................... 16 (8) Separate Opinions ................................................................................................... 17 F. Postfiling Revisions ...................................................................................................... 17 Effect of Post-Filing Revisions (Chart) ............................................................................ 19 -iii- (1) Corrections .............................................................................................................. 20 (2) Modifying Opinions After Withdrawal .................................................................. 20 (3) Modifying Opinions on Denial of Rehearing ......................................................... 20 (4) Supplemental Opinions ........................................................................................... 21 (5) Allowance of Rehearing ......................................................................................... 22 (6) Effect on Public-Domain Formats .......................................................................... 22 G. Review After Remand ................................................................................................. 23 (1) Opinion Not to Be Withdrawn ................................................................................ 23 (2) Supervisory Orders ................................................................................................. 23 (3) The New Opinion .................................................................................................... 24 II. GRAMMATICAL STYLE .............................................................................................. 25 A. Quoting Text ................................................................................................................ 25 (1) Revisions ................................................................................................................. 25 (2) Use of “[sic]” .......................................................................................................... 25 (3) Indicating Lettering and Punctuation Changes ....................................................... 25 (4) Emphasis ................................................................................................................. 26 (5) Footnotes ................................................................................................................. 27 B. Omissions ..................................................................................................................... 27 (1) Use of Asterisks ...................................................................................................... 27 (2) Asterisks for Parts of a Word .................................................................................. 27 (3) Citations .................................................................................................................. 28 (4) Punctuation in Statutory Subsections...................................................................... 28 (5) Public-Domain Citation System Paragraph Numbers ............................................. 28 (6) Display Type ........................................................................................................... 28 (7) Quotation Marks ..................................................................................................... 29 C. Block Quotations ......................................................................................................... 29 (1) Paragraphing ........................................................................................................... 29 (2) When First Line Is Indented ................................................................................... 29 (3) Citations .................................................................................................................. 29 -iv- (4) Courtroom Testimony ............................................................................................. 30 D. Typography and General Grammar ............................................................................. 31 (1) Typeface .................................................................................................................. 31 (2) Spelling References ................................................................................................ 31 (3) Grammar References .............................................................................................. 31 (4) Comma Usage ......................................................................................................... 31 (5) Contractions ............................................................................................................ 31 (6) Dashes ..................................................................................................................... 32 (7) Abbreviations in Text ............................................................................................. 32 (8) Italicized Words .....................................................................................................