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citator

citator (sI-tay-t[schwa]r). A catalogued list of cases, statutes, and other legal sources showing the subsequent history and current precedential value of those sources. • Citators allow researchers to verify the authority of a precedent and to find additional sources relating to a given subject. Citators were originally printed on gummed paper and pasted next to

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keycite

KeyCite, vb. To determine the subsequent history of (a case, statute, etc.) by using the online citator of the same name to establish that the point being researched is still good law. — KeyCiting, n.

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shepardize

shepardize, vb. 1. (often cap.) To determine the subsequent history of (a case) by using a printed or computerized version of Shepard’s Citators. 2. Loosely, to check the precedential value of (a case) by the same or similar means. — shepardization; shepardizing, n.

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