RAW Markup: <dated>

• The date attached to an opinion when no specific term is used to describe the meaning of the date.
• This date tag, like its siblings (dated, filed, etc.), are used markup the mutliple dates often attached to an opinion. Although some courts use the same term to describe different dates (e.g., some courts use "filed" to describe when an appeal is filed, while others use it to describe when a lawsuit is filed or when a new decision is filed with the court clerk). All date tags are meant to match the particular term used by the court regardless of differences in that term's usage between courts or juridictions.
• Child of <dates>.
• Contains string matching the ISO 8601 standard (e.g., "yyyy-mm-dd"). The use of the standard's time format has not been excluded from use but such data is generally not available and has not yet been tested.
• Cannot contain any child elements.
• Although use of the dated tag is not required, at least one date tag is required and "dated" should be used as the default date tag when no other date information is present (see dates for more information on the date order and conflict. A maximum of one dated tag is allowed.
• See <dates> for more information on date order and conflict.