An opinion shall be prepared in memorandum form unless it:
Opinions of the Supreme Court designated for official publication shall be published on the Oklahoma State Courts Network. They shall be published on the web site when filed with the Clerk of the Supreme Court.
Supreme Court opinions shall contain the following notice: "NOTICE: THIS OPINION HAS NOT BEEN RELEASED FOR PUBLICATION. UNTIL RELEASED, IT IS SUBJECT TO REVISION OR WITHDRAWAL." Such opinions may not be cited as authority in a subsequent appellate opinion nor may they be used as authority by a trial court until the mandate in the matter has been issued. The date of the effectiveness of opinions in original proceedings is governed by Okla.Sup.Ct.R. 1.193. When opinions published on the web site are modified or withdrawn the text of the opinion shall be deleted and any subsequent opinion in the matter shall be published on the web site if it meets the requirements of Rule 1.200.
Opinions of the Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals designated for official publication by either the Supreme Court or the Court of Civil Appeals shall be published on the Oklahoma State Courts Network. An opinion of the Court of Civil Appeals shall not be published on the web site until mandate has issued in the matter. An opinion of the Court of Civil Appeals published on the web site is governed by Rule 1.200(c)(2) and is accorded precedential value only if it bears the notation "Approved for Publication by the Supreme Court".
The Oklahoma Supreme Court may publish on the web site Dispositions by Supreme Court of Petitions for Certiorari. These dispositions shall not be for official publication, and they shall not have a paragraph citation form. A disposition of the Oklahoma Supreme Court that denies a petition for certiorari to the Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals has no precedential effect. The Supreme Court may also publish lists of mandates issued and any other matter deemed appropriate by the Court.
Published opinions of the Oklahoma Supreme Court and the Court of Civil Appeals shall bear as an official cite the Oklahoma Supreme Court's paragraph citation form in accordance with this Rule. Opinions of the Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals that are published shall bear as an official citation form the Oklahoma Supreme Court's paragraph citation form in accordance with this Rule. The numbers of the paragraphs are assigned by the Court. The parallel cite to the Pacific reporter is also required.
The court designation for the Oklahoma Supreme Court is "OK". The Court designation for the Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals is "OK CIV APP". The court designation for Court of Appeals of Indian Territory is "IT".
By way of example "Skinner v. Braum's Ice Cream Store, 1995 OK 11, ¶9, 890 P.2d 922" "1995" refers to the year the opinion was promulgated, "OK" is the court designation for the Oklahoma Supreme Court, "11" is the number of the opinion in 1995 assigned to that opinion by the Oklahoma Supreme Court, "¶9" is paragraph number 9 of the opinion as designated by the Supreme Court, and "890 P.2d 922" is the parallel citation to Pacific 2d Reporter.
Examples of citation form:
Skinner v. Braum's Ice Cream Store, 1995 OK 11, 890 P.2d 922.
Skinner v. Braum's Ice Cream Store, 1995 OK 11, ¶9, 890 P.2d 922.
Skinner v. Braum's Ice Cream Store, 1995 OK 11, ¶9, 890 P.2d 922, 925.
Skinner v. Braum's Ice Cream Store, 1995 OK 11, n. 10, 890 P.2d 922.
An opinion cited subsequent to issuance of the mandate therein but prior to official publication shall be cited using the following as an example: Wilkinson v. Dean Witter Reynolds, Inc., 1997 OK 20, ____P.2d____, (mandate issued April 3, 1997).
In a matter where no mandate issues an opinion may be cited prior to official publication when the time to file a petition for rehearing has lapsed and no petition for rehearing was filed. The following is an example: Edwards v. Basel Pharmaceuticals, 1997 OK 22, ____P.2d____, (petition for rehearing not filed).
Published opinions of the Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals shall be cited by reference to the Supreme Court's official paragraph citation form. Parallel citation to Pacific Reporters is required. Opinions of the Court of Civil Appeals are subject to the other provisions of Rule 1.200.
The paragraph citation form is also used to designate material in a published opinion where that opinion is supported by less than a majority of the members of the Supreme Court. When material from such an opinion is cited the name of the author, names of any Justices joining the opinion, and the type of opinion must be designated in the cite. For example, to cite paragraph number nine of the dissenting opinion in Edwards v. Basel Pharmaceuticals, 1997 OK 22, ___P.2d___. The correct citation form is: Edwards v. Basel Pharmaceuticals, 1997 OK 22, ¶9, ___P.2d___, (Opala, J., dissenting in part). A footnote of this dissenting opinion is cited thus: Edwards v. Basel Pharmaceuticals, 1997 OK 22, n.12, ___P.2d___, (Opala, J., dissenting in part). A published opinion, or part thereof, of the Supreme Court has no precedential effect unless a majority of the Court have joined therein.
Okla. Stat. tit. 12, app 1 R. 1.200