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What does "Shepardizing" mean ?

Shepardizing is the act of consulting Shepard's citations to see if a legal case has been overturned, affirmed, corroborated, questioned, or cited by later cases. Shepard's citations themselves are a list of all the authorities citing a particular statute, case, commentator, or legal authority.

what is the process of Shepardizing a case using the print version of Shepard's?

Firstly, you select the right citation selecting citator that corresponds to the reporter series (for instance if you are investigating the McNeil case and you are using the book Federal Reporter, you would shepardize the McNeil decision in Shepard's Federal Citations. Your Shepard supplement of citations should be the most recent and complete edition. Multi-volume sets of Shepard's citations are divided into volumes that contain either cases or statutes as cited references. Book spines show the reporter volumes that are included. A cursory check of the spines tells you the books that you need for your citation.

The table of contents and preface explains the citator's features and coverage. To find a citation, look for the right division (divisions are listed in the table of contents); look for the reporter's volume name that appears on the tope of the page in boxes, there you will also find the page number, case name, and decision date. Finally, understanding the abbreviations, interpret the case citation information.

3) List the different color supplements found in the print version of shepard's and what each color represents.

Shepard's print products come in five colors coded by the type of product:

Red = Cumulative Supplement; Gray = Case Names Supplement; Gold = annual, semi-annual, or Quarterly supplement: Blue = Express Supplement (U.S. & Federal); Green = ALR Shepard's Citations only.

4)In the print version of Shepard's where will you find the parallel citations to a case? The parallel citations for a case orgnaized by jurisdiction and court are found within the columns on the page under the table of contents. The whole is under the title of the case being sheparded

5)Why should you check your case under its state reporter reference and its regional reporter reference if both exist? give at least 2 o 3 reason

There are differences between the two. You turn to state reporters for (a) state insturctions, (b) court rules, and (c) for citing references from decisions of that state. These are at least 3 reasons why you would turn to state reporters as well as regional reporters. Regional reporters do not include statute and non-case legal authorities as their citators. However, they are used because they contain decisions from other states.

6)NAme of the 2 primary methods of "shepardizing" online

You can enter a citation on the righthand side of QuickTools and click Shepard to take you to source. You can also click Shepard's button at the top of the screen. The page takes you to the citation that you want to check with toggle buttons to help you.

7) Other then cases what other types of legal sources do shepard's and keycite cite? Shepard's also cites statutes, administrative rules and regulations, court rules, constitutional provisions, and jury instructions

8) If you cannot find any information about what you are "shepardizind" in the print volume you are using, what does the absence of that information mean? That you may not be using the most recent and complete supplement. Shepard's Daily Update service can help you find out the most recent occurences.

9)How does the print volume of shepard s indicate the headnote of the cited case? Head note analysis is shown using superscript numbers preceding the citing case's page numbers

10) Why should you turn to shepard or keycite every time you use statutes in your research? In order to show whether cases cited for criticizing or overruling particular cases had indeed directly overruled that particular case in which one is interested. Sometimes, one can still cite a case as good law even though it has been overruled, for it may have been overruled on another matter and not on the particular case in question.