Because the quoted passage was altered in some way, the court had to add a parenthetical to signify the changes.
Yes, it is a parenthetical, but it's one of the good ones.
(42) Rule 5.2 aside, courts and practitioners regularly remove brackets and ellipses from quotations and indicate the omissions with "(brackets omitted)" and "(ellipsis omitted)." (43) Those nonstandard parentheticals allow the author to remove some clutter from the quotation but only by adding additional metadata clutter to the associated citation.
at 108 (setting out Rule 10.6.2 ("Quoting/Citing Parentheticals in Case Citations") and Rule 10.6.3 ("Order of Parentheticals")).
Plus, there is guidance for incorporating citations into documents, signals, explanatory parentheticals, and order of authorities, as well as a whole chapter on quotations.
Inside The Indigo Book are background rules on in-text citations, signals, capitalization, and the order of authorities within each signal; rules on citing cases, including guidance of the weight of authority and explanatory parentheticals; and rules on citing federal and state statutes, rules of evidence and procedure, uniform acts, administrative rules and regulations, federal tax materials, and legislative materials, and it includes short-form citations for legislative and administrative materials.
When it comes to the semantic development of first person epistemic parentheticals, Traugott (1995) notes that the subject may lose referential (objective) properties, and become simply the starting point of a perspective.
Traditionally, items like this have been called parentheticals or parenthetical expressions in linguistics.
Numbers and
Parentheticals. Now, three hours of phone calls and three days later, the patient can call her primary care physician (who's had nothing at all to do with the treatment plan), from whom she's required to get the referrals she needs (one for the oncologist, the other for the treatment).
There is no reason to insert
parentheticals systematically after any authority introduced by the signal see.
Wherever possible, citations should be handled as in-text
parenthetical citations, especially when the source of a quote or a paraphrase has already been mentioned in the text, and when there is no possibility for confusion.
Secondly, in Brinton's analysis of I gesse, I trowe, and the like, she presents a fascinating thesis that these
parentheticals serve entirely different functions in the narratological report and in characters' dialogue.
39), according to whom
parentheticals provide background or secondary information (Huddleston), or supply information that is communicatively supererogatory to the propositional content of the clause in which they appear (Nunberg).
"Usually no more than two or three are necessary, particularly if those cases cite others." (22) When a string of citations is used, it is more persuasive with proper use of introductory signals and explanatory
parentheticals that explain the relevance of each citation.
A citation consists of three basic parts: an introductory signal stating the nature of the support provided, a description of the authority, and an optional
parenthetical phrase explaining its relevance to the subject matter.
