diff --git a/eyecite/utils.py b/eyecite/utils.py
index c5155eb..074a196 100644
--- a/eyecite/utils.py
+++ b/eyecite/utils.py
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 import re
 from lxml import etree
 
+
 def strip_punct(text: str) -> str:
     """Strips punctuation from a given string
     Adapted from nltk Penn Treebank tokenizer