mdoneil writes “From Resource Shelf: A simple search of published court decisions shows that Wikipedia is
frequently cited by judges around the country, involving serious
issues and the bizarre–such as a 2005 tax case before the Tennessee
Court of Appeals concerning the definition of “beverage” that involved
hundreds of thousands of dollars, and, just this week, a case in
Federal District Court in Florida that involved the term “booty music”
as played during a wet T-shirt contest. More than 100 judicial
rulings have relied on Wikipedia, beginning in 2004, including 13 from
circuit courts of appeal, one step below the Supreme Court.
(The
Supreme Court thus far has never cited Wikipedia.)
I’d fire up LexisNexis but it would just depress me.”
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