I have written thousands of legal briefs where I quote from precedent to support my position.
I'm sure you did not use cites without some summary of the legal principle involved along with an explanation of how that principle applied to your case. I'm also certain that when you cited precedent you were capable of reading and understanding that precedent.
Most of us who post here are not scientists. I'm a patent attorney/engineer. But I don't cite references that I don't understand and then whine like a toddler when I'm asked tough questions about those references by those who are scientists. You've been caught over and over misrepresenting scientific references to the point where I don't even bother to look at those references anymore.
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