There's some of this in the law! digitalcommons.law.uw.edu/faculty-arti...

There's an AMAZING amount of snarky footnoting in the law, though I'm biased because I'm a non-lawyer who mostly sees it when some social-media law-talker posts a "wow, this decision was snarky" or "wow, the judge pounded them even before you get to the footnotes" case.