Genuine question lost in the blizzard on this thread... but why would a citation add to this? It would just indicate that someone else agreed; what does this add?
> Sometimes it's just an attempt to do the due diligence of citing the primary reference rather than the reference that cited the reference that cited the primary reference.
True, but in this case you should include both references.
I similarly chuckle in cases where there's a citation covering the whole sentence but someone felt the need to slap a "citation needed" on a specific clause despite that clause being supported in the existing citation.
Is this on Citation Statement search? I think it is probably because the citation context contains two or more citations in it. We look at citations per sentence so it is duplicated there. I can see how that is confusing though.
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