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To shepardize a court case, start with your case displayed in LexisNexis Academic.
Towards the top right of the court case screen, you should see an area labeled Next Steps.
From the pop-down selection box, choose Shepardize.
Then click on the Go button.
The Shepardize screen includes a short Shepard Summary, any prior and subsequent
case history, followed by citations, if there are any.
For example, after shepardizing this case, I see that there is favorable treatment for my case with eight following cases.
In other words, eight cases used my case to support a legal argument.
If I move further down the screen, I start to see specific citing court cases.
Here is one of the cases that followed my case. Cases usually include links to the full text.
Be on the lookout for any type of negative or cautionary treatment.
For example, in another case I have shepardized, I see a red warning stop sign.
The appellate history has some negative analysis.
I’ll click on the “Show Subsequent Appellate History,”
and scroll a little bit further down,
and I see that my case was later reversed, which is a critical piece of information.
And here is a link to the full text.
Now, depending on your particular case, you might find that shepardizing displays many
citations or you might have very few or no references.
If you do have questions, please contact me.