How and Why Do Law Courts Quote? Quotations and References in Verdicts of the Bundesverfassungsgericht und the Supreme Court of Canada (B02#)

法院通常引用上级法院案件中的引文和参考资料作为判决依据。然而，它们也指的是法律的文献、其他法律的体系的判决，甚至是文学作品。在前者中，引用的策略是法院功能逻辑的重要组成部分，而后者的例子则没有任何直接的法律的权威。本项目将提供一个比较研究的原因，法院不得不参考这些来源，但他们这样做时使用的方法。

Courts of law typically use quotations and references from cases in higher courts for their verdicts. However, they also refer to legal literature, verdicts from other legal systems or, indeed, literary texts. While in the former, the strategy to quote is part and parcel of the functional logic of law courts, the examples of the latter have no direct legal authority whatsoever. This project will provide a comparative study of the reasons law courts have to refer to such sources nevertheless and the methods they employ when doing so.