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040			_cUM Bansalan College LIC
082			_aBPer. 340 _bP538
100			_aLazo, Hilton A. _914532
245			_aCited Today, Gone Tomorrow: _bThe Problem of Disappearing Internet Sources Cited in Supreme Court Decisions/ _cby Hilton A. Lazo
260			_aDiliman, Quezon City, Philippines: _bUniversity of the Philippines College of Law
300			_a21 pages
310			_aQuarterly
362			_aFebruary 2018
440			_aPhilippine Law Journal _vVol.91, No.1(February 2018) _x0031-7721 _914528
490			_vVol.91, No.1(February 2018) _x0031-7721
520			_aCitations occupy a central role in judicial adjudication especially in a legal system that adheres to stare decisis, such as the Philippine legal system. Citations connect arguments to authorities that support them. They aid readers in locating primary and secondary legal sources. This significance accorded to citations in legal argumentation requires that the sources they point to remain perpetually available. When a source disappears, readers will never be able to examine its relevance, veracity and quality. This problem of disappearing sources particularly afflicts cited online content. Unlike print sporces, internet content suffers from volatility. What is worrisome is that over the years, the Supreme Court has increasingly cited internet sources in its decisions. This empirical study documents how pervasive the problem is. The results show that the majority of internet sources cited in decisions promulgated from 1997 to 2012 have all disappeared. In addition, they reveal that the older the citations are, the more probable it is that the internet sources they point to have disappeared. To address this problem, several archiving options are presented, along with their advantages and disadvantages.
650			_aInternet resources _914533
650			_aDisappearance of Internet resources _914534
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