RAW Markup: <decided>

• The date on which a court issed its decision.
• 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.
• This tag should only be used where the court specifies an opinion's date using a variant of the word decided.