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To Shepardize a US Supreme
Court case is to trace case history that refers to the selected case. According
to LexisNexis these subsequent cases "determine whether it is still good
law, e.g., whether its value as precedent has been affected by a later court
decision or legislative action".
It is possible to trace case history using either one of the following sites:
LexisNexis Basic Legal Research and
FindLaw.
In
LexisNexis
Basic Legal Research
it is easy to Shepardize a US Supreme
Court case.
1. Click on Shepard's®
for US Supreme Court
2 . Type in the citation of the court case (e.g., 407 U.S. 258)
3 . Click on Search
4 . The court case and Shepard's® Citation information will be retrieved.
It is possible to
trace some case histories in FindLaw
Supreme Court Opinion.
<URL: http://www.findlaw.com/casecode/supreme.html>
1. Click the down arrow next to FindLaw ![[ image ]](findlaw5.gif)
2. Select US Supreme
Court
3. Type in the citation of the court case (e.g., 407 U.S. 258)
4. Click on Search
5. The court case and tracing information will be retrieved - click on
the case that matches the party names of the appropriate case.
If there have been
follow-up cases, FindLaw shows the case and has links to "Cases
citing this case: Supreme Court" and "Cases citing this case:
Circuit Courts".
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