String Citations-Part I

Whenever you list more than one authority to support the same legal proposition, you are using a string citation. The name arises from the impression that the writer is stringing together several citations. In a string citation, each authority follows the next in a proscribed order: (1) by strength of authority (primary before secondary, enacted law before case law); (2) by jurisdiction (federal before state, alphabetically among states); (3) by rank of court (highest to lowest court); and (4) by date (reverse chronological with most recent first).\u27 Semi-colons are placed between each authority