Thursday, March 5, 2009

Shepardizing....

...is available in case decisions in Lexis Nexis Academic. Find prior and subsequent history as well as how the decision was treated in cases and in secondary sources like reviews and law textbooks.

When I shepardize a case, I usually do so by clicking the "Next Steps" feature on the case display.

I forgot that Lexis Nexis does a pretty good job of explaining how to do these things. See here, for example.

If you're so inclined, LexisNexis also has a nifty guide to navigating the paper version of Shepard's (pdf)