Template:Court opinion part/doc

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This template is to insert authorship information about an individual court opinion part (majority, concurrence, etc.) into case briefs.

Usage

Copy and paste the text from the box below into a case brief page within the case brief infobox template to the right of |Court_opinion_parts=. Each opinion part should have its own box on the case brief page. This box can be repeated as many times as needed.

Fill in the data to the right of the equals sign.

{{Court opinion part
| opinion_type          = <!-- "majority," "plurality," "unanimous," "concurrence," "dissent," OR "concur/dissent" -->
| written_by            = 
| joined_by             =  
}}

Description of fields

Field Description
opinion_type One of "majority," "plurality," "unanimous," "concurrence," "dissent," OR "concur/dissent."
written_by The justice who wrote this opinion part.
joined_by The justices who joined the decision. If multiple, separate by asterisk. If the decision was unanimous, simply leave blank.

Insert authorship information about an individual court opinion part (majority, concurrence, etc.) into case briefs.

Template parameters

This template prefers block formatting of parameters.

ParameterDescriptionTypeStatus
Opinion typeopinion_type

One of "majority," "plurality," "unanimous," "concurrence," "dissent," OR "concur/dissent."

Default
majority
Unknownrequired
Written bywritten_by

The justice who wrote this opinion part.

Unknownoptional
Joined byjoined_by

The justices who joined the decision. If multiple, separate by asterisk. If the decision was unanimous, simply leave blank.

Unknownoptional