Delaware Table of Citations: Supreme Court Briefs

The actual table requirement

The table provision expressly supplies the categories and alphabetical arrangement, but does not itself expressly say that each authority must have brief-page references. Page references remain a useful navigation feature and are the normal purpose of a generated authorities table; this guide recommends verifying them without presenting that recommendation as additional quoted rule text. Rule 14(b)(i), by contrast, expressly requires section and heading page numbers in the table of contents. Keep those two requirements separate. Neither provision is an affirmative authorization to replace detailed references with passim.

Delaware citation form and three different page references

Rule 14(g)(i) directs reported-opinion citations to The Bluebook “with no reference to State Reporter Systems or other parallel citations.” Its own example is Melson v. Allman, 244 A.2d 85 (Del. 1968). That is a rule-provided citation example, not an invented local authority. If a draft includes an extra state-reporter parallel citation, correct the citation in the brief and review the table consistently; extraction does not rewrite citation style. Electronic and unreported opinions have additional forms in Rule 14(g), so preserve their identifying details rather than retaining only a short case name.

Distinguish a reporter page, a brief page and an appendix page. In a hypothetical draft citing that example on brief pages 6 and 11, the table’s useful location references would be 6, 11. The reporter’s 85 identifies the published opinion. An A-prefixed reference identifies an appellant appendix page under Rule 13(a)(iii), not an occurrence in the brief. Those numbers serve different readers’ tasks.

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