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The Law Blog found that the Chicago-based 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals cited Wikipedia 36 times [in the past five years], more than any other federal appeals court. [F]or example, judges referred to Wikipedia entries on the movie Blazing Saddles and on an ailment known as an anal fissure.
— all of these citations are from Posner, who is also the only judge to have ever cited a Gawker article as support in an opinion
(Source: abajournal.com)
