Editing Citation signal (section)

===''But cf.''===
The cited authority contradicts the stated proposition by analogy; a parenthetical explanation of the source's relevance is recommended. For example: ''But cf.'' 995 F.2d, at 1137 (observing that "[i]n the ordinary tort claim arising when a government driver negligently runs into another car, jury trial is precisely what is lost to a plaintiff when the government is substituted for the employee").

"But" should be omitted from "but see" and "but cf." when the signal follows another negative signal: ''Contra'' ''Blake v. Kiline'', 612 F.2d 718, 723-24 (3d Cir. 1979); ''see'' CHARLES ALAN WRIGHT, LAW OF FEDERAL COURTS 48 (4th ed. 1983).