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248 U.S. 215
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International News Service v. Associated Press
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Music, copyright law
Citators like Shepards are used for several reasons:
1. To help you check the status of a case, statute or other authority to ensure that it is still good law, i.e., that it has not been superseded, overruled, reversed, and/or questioned.
2.To provide parallel citations and both prior and subsequent appellate history for your authorities.
3. For locating cases, statutes, law reviews, and other legal resources that quote or cite to your authority on the same or similar legal issues.
* Signal Legend:
-Warning: Negative treatment is indicated
-Questioned: Validity is questioned by citing references
-Caution: Possible negative treatment
-Positive treatment is indicated
-Citing references with analysis is available
-Citation information is available
The Summary box provides a snapshot of any subsequent, negative appellate history, as well as the numbers and types of citing references by type, including:
Cases are broken down by many sub-groups, including:
To view a document, either click on the hyperlink for the citation or the available pinpoint reference(s) that will take you to the exact place(s) where your authority is referenced.
With regard to cases, they are listed in order by U.S. Supreme Court, federal circuits in number order, federal districts courts in alphabetical order, and then states in alphabetical order. Unfortunately, law reviews and journals are listed in alphabetical order by publication title, rather than date. Obviously, date only matters when there are a lot of articles to review.
You could look at all of the citing decisions in an unrestricted report, but where there are a lot of citations, you may want to restrict your results. Lexis Nexis provides choices at the top of the screen for negative references only (All Neg), positive references only (All Pos), or a customized list (Focus-Restrict By). The Focus option is a great tool to limit a long list of citations by various criteria, including:
Sasala, K. (2011). Shepardizing and Keyciting online. Retrieved September 6, 2013
from http://www.clelaw.lib.oh.us/public/misc/Shepardizing%20and%20KeyCiting.html
