A red light means the case has been overruled or reversed. Shepard's provides citator services for cases, statutes, rules, ordinances, jury instructions and law review articles. While Shepard's provides citation services for citations reported in Federal, State and National Reporter publications, it is also beginning to provide these services for unpublished cases available on Lexis. As with Lexis-Nexis, the Westlaw subscription can be accessed from the the Law Center home page under Library. KeyCite uses a series of flags to indicate the status of the researcher's case.
Red flags indicate that the case has been overruled or reversed.
KeyCite organizes citing cases by the depth of treatment accorded a case, using a star system. Cases with four stars indicate that the researcher's case has received extensive discussion while three stars indicate that the case received several paragraphs. Two stars reflect some discussion while one star indicates that the case was merely cited. Quotation marks indicate that quotes from the researcher's case are included in the citing case. KeyCite also allows a researcher to limit the citation analysis by headnote, jurisdiction, date, publication, document type, or depth of case treatment.