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Thanks, I passed on your bug report! For the jurisdiction slugs we use the standard legal citation abbreviations for each state: https://law.resource.org/pub/

• tzs 8y ago
  Ha...you posted this 11 minutes ago as of right now. 12 minutes ago I found a similar link citing Bluebook abbreviations and posted a "never mind, I figured it out note" (and mentioned I felt silly for not noticing it right away--I went to law school in Washington and so spent three years seeing "Wash." on the spines of case reports). It took me 12 minutes to post because I tossed in some explanations for people not familiar with legal citations. As soon as I posted, I saw yours, and deleted mine as redundant. There is one thing, though, that I discovered working on that post and am curious about now. I picked a case at random to use as an example, Peterson v. City of Seattle, 316 P.2d 904, 51 Wash. 2d 187 (1957). Here's a link to the Washington Supreme Court's opinion: https://law.justia.com/cases/washington/supreme-court/1957/34194-1.html https://law.justia.com/cases/washington/supreme-court/1957/3... Within the opinion they cite the case as 51 Wn.2d 187 (1957) at the top. Inside the opinion they cite some Washington cases as Wn and some as Wash. I could see no obvious patter as to which they pick. Anyone happen to know offhand what determines which form they use?