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A headnote is a summary of the key aspects of a legal case, that is added to the text of a court decision to aid readers in locating discussion of a legal issue in an opinion. Headnotes appear at the beginning of a published opinion and are generally written by independent legal publishers.
In 1906, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled in United States v. Detroit Timber & Lumber Co. that headnotes have no legal standing and therefore do not set precedent.[1]
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