Shepard’s Citations

Validate your research more quickly and completely with Shepard’s^®Citations Service, the premier legal citation tool. Shepard’s gives you comprehensive coverage and a full spectrum of editorial analysis to help you confirm that your case law citation references are strong, accurate and on-point. It can also identify cited cases that discuss specific issues of interest. Shepard’s can even monitor the cases that you choose and alert you to any changes.

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Full-spectrum editorial analysis

Shepard’s^® analysis includes information that is classified as negative, questioned, neutral and followed. This “Followed by” analysis is exclusive to Shepard’s and gives you a complete picture of the status of the item you’re researching.

Visual indication of precedential status

Shepard’s Signal^™ indicators provide a fast, easy way to view each case’s precedential status as well as the status of its citing references.

At-a-glance summaries of case treatment

To make case law citation validation faster and easier, Shepard’s integrates a concise summary of case treatment and analysis in each report. Shepard’s summaries let you quickly assess the validity of a case and instantly navigate to the information most relevant for you. Shepard’s summaries also help quickly identify possible splits of authority, a feature that’s unique to the service.

Precise filtering capability

With Shepard’s robust FOCUS^™-Restrict By feature, you can easily narrow and customize your Shepard’s reports to show only the information you need. View specific treatments, jurisdictions, dates, and/or headnotes (including LexisNexis^® Headnotes), or highlight specific words in the text of your citing references.

Automatic updates

With the Shepard’s Alert^® feature, you’ll get immediate notification of changes to Shepard’s data along with case validation updates for the cases that you choose.

Instant analysis of supporting cases

Shepard’s Table of Authorities (TOA) provides an at-a-glance analysis of your case’s foundation, uncovering hidden weaknesses even in cases that have no obvious negative treatment. The TOA provides a concise list of all cases cited in your case, indicating the treatment and status of each legal citation using distinctive Shepard’s Signal indicators.

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The Shepard’s navigation bar lets you move quickly among references within your Shepard’s report to view a specific jurisdiction or a particular treatment.

Get it now: for more information about Shepard’s^® Citations Service, please call (800) 227-4908.