For all of the hand waving around guides to legal citations, legal citations are more common than pigeon droppings in Rome. You need only gather them up and write an explanation for how to use them. After diligent searching, I have found no one objecting to anyone gathering legal citations and/or writing about how to use those legal citations.
However, attempting to donate the work of others, for the "public good," isn't the same as creating your own work product.
If you undertake the challenge of creating better public access to legal citations, please don't attempt to write Bleak House "lite" or some other mimic of current practice.
| Baby Blue's | Bluebook® |
| R1. Two Types of Legal Documents | B1, R1 |
| R2. Typeface Standards | B2, R2 |
| R3. In-Text Citations | B1, R1 |
| R4. Signals | B1.2, R1.2 |
| R5. Capitalization Rules | B8, R8 |
| R6. Signals for Supporting Authority | B1.2, R1.2 |
| R7. Signals for Comparison | B1.2, R1.2(b) |
| R8. Signals for Contradictory Authority | B1.2, R1.2(c) |
| R9. Signals for Background Material | B1.2, R1.2(d) |
| R10. Order of Authorities Within Each Signal / Strength of Authority | B1.2, R1.4 |
| B. CASES | B10, R10 |
| R11. Full citation | B10.1 |
| R12. Court & Year | B10.1.3, R10.4, R10.5 |
| R13. Weight of Authority and Explanatory Parenthetical | B10.1.5, R10.6.1 |
| R14. History of the Case | B10.1.6, R10.7 |
| R15. Short Form Citation for Cases | B10.2, R10.9 |
| C. STATUTES, RULES, REGULATIONS, AND OTHER LEGISLATIVE & ADMINISTRATIVE MATERIALS | R12, R13, R14 |
| R16. Federal Statutes | B12.1.1, R12 |
| R17. State Statutes | B12.1.2, R12 |
| R18. Rules of Procedure and Evidence, Restatements, and Uniform Acts | B12.1.3, R12.9.3, R12.9.4 |
| R19. Administrative Rules and Regulations | B14, R14 |
| R20. Federal Taxation Materials | B12.1.4, R12.9.1 |
| R21. Legislative Materials | B13, R13 |
| R22. Short Form Citation of Legislative and Administrative Materials | R13.8 |
| R23. Sources and Authorities: Constitutions | B11, R11 |
| D. COURT & LITIGATION DOCUMENTS | R10.8.3 |
| R24. Citing Court or Litigation Documents from Your Case | R10.8.3 |
| R25. Citing Court or Litigation Documents from Another Case | R10.8.3 |
| R26. Short Form Citation for Court Documents | B4, R4 |
| R27. Capitalization Within the Text of Court Documents and Legal Memoranda | B8, R8 |
| E. BOOKS & NON-PERIODICALS | B15, R15 |
| R28. Full Citation for Books & Non-Periodicals | B15.1 |
| R29. Short Form Citation for Books & Non-Periodicals | B15.2 |
| F. JOURNALS, MAGAZINES, & NEWSPAPER ARTICLES | R16 |
| R30. Full Citation for Journals, Magazines & Newspaper Articles | B16.1 |
| R31. Short Form Citation for Journals, Magazines & Newspaper Articles | B16.2 |
| G. INTERNET SOURCES | B18, R18 |
| R32. General Principles for Internet Sources | R18.2.1 |
| R33. Basic Formula for Internet Sources | B18.1.1, R18.1 |
| R34. Short Form Citations for Internet Sources | B18.2 |
| H. EXPLANATORY PARENTHETICALS | R12.8 |
| R35. General Principles for Explanatory Parentheticals | B1.3 |
| R36. Order of parentheticals | R1.5(b) |
| I. QUOTATIONS | B5, R5 |
| R37. General Principles for Quotations | B5.1 |
| R38. Alterations of Quotations | R5.2 |
| R39. Omissions in Quotations | R5.3 |
| R40. Special Rules for Block Quotations | B5.2 |
| J. TABLES | |
| T1. Federal Jurisdictions | T1 |
| T1.1. Federal Judicial and Legislative Materials | T1.1 |
| T1.2. Federal Administrative and Legislative Materials | T1.2 |
| T2. U.S. States and Other Jurisdictions | T1.3 |
| T3. Required Abbreviations for Court Names | T7 |
| T4. Required Abbreviations for Legislative Documents | T9 |
| T5. Required Abbreviations for Arbitral Reporters | T5 |
| T6. Required Abbreviations for Case Names In Citations | T6 |
| T7. Required Abbreviations for Intergovernmental Organizations | T3 |
| T7.1. United Nations and League of Nations | T3.1, T3.2 |
| T7.2. Europe | T3.3, T3.4, T3.5 |
| T7.3. Inter-American and International Tribunal | T3.6, T3.7, T3.8 |
| T7.4. Other Intergovernmental Organizations | T3.9 |
| T8. Required Abbreviations for Services | T15 |
| T8.1. Service Publisher Names | T15 |
| T8.2. Service Abbreviations | T15 |
| T9. Required Abbreviations for Treaty Sources | T4 |
| T10. Required Abbreviations for Geographical Terms | T10 |
| T10.1 U.S. States, Cities and Territories | T10.1 |
| T10.2 Australian States and Canadian Provinces and Territories | T10.2 |
| T10.3 Countries and Regions | T10.3 |
| T11. Required Abbreviations for Titles of Judges and Officials | T11 |
| T12. Required Abbreviations for Month Names | T12 |
| T13. Required Abbreviations for Periodical Names | T13 |
| T13.1. Required Abbreviations for Institutions | T13.1 |
| T13.2. Required Abbreviations for Common Words Used In Periodical Names | T13.2 |
| T14. Required Abbreviations for Publishing Terms | T14 |
| T15. Required Abbreviations for Explanatory Phrases | T8 |
| T16. Required Abbreviations for Document Subdivisions | T16 |
| T17. Table of Citation Guides | T2 |