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Shepard’s® Citations Service
Relied on for over 130 years, Shepard’s Citations Service provides comprehensive coverage and a full spectrum of editorial analysis so you can be sure your citations are strong, accurate and on point.
Ensure that you have good law and build more effective arguments by validating your research with Shepard’s Citations Service.
- Validate cases with unsurpassed speed
With at-a-glance summaries of the most important information contained in the Shepard’s report, Shepard’s Citations makes it quick and easy to check the validity of a case and zero in on the information most relevant to you.
- Discover potential splits of authority
Only Shepard’s Citations gives you full-spectrum editorial analysis, highlighting both negative and positive treatment of a case. This helps reveal potential splits of authority, giving you a more precise view of the validity of a case as it applies to your specific situation.
- Ensure validation information is current
Shepard’s treatment and history analyses are constantly updated—typically within 24 to 48 hours of receipt of an opinion—so you can be confident that your authority is current.
- Easily monitor new information affecting the strength of your cases
Shepard’s makes it simple to stay on top of late-breaking changes in the treatment or signal value of your cases. With the Shepard’s Alert® feature, you can receive automatic case citation updates any time there are changes to reports for your cases.
- Quickly zero in on the information most relevant to you
Shepard’s reports just the information that interests you. With filtering by jurisdiction, date, legal issue or term, Shepard’s makes getting to the heart of the matter faster.
- Rely on expert analysis
Shepard’s is the only legal citation validation service to use skilled attorney-editors, whose sole responsibility is to analyze court opinions to ensure that even the most subtle impact on cited decisions is reflected.
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