Shepard’s Citations constitute an elaborate system of case and statute data collection for updating your research. Explain Shepard’s process of accumulating case information, as well as its system of organizing the material in each publication.
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Shepard’s material is accumulated through searches of court decisions, agency
decisions, attorney general opinions, legal periodical articles, and annotated reports. Every
reported case is collected, examined, and reviewed for any other cases and/or statutes
mentioned in each, thereby providing a full and complete history of each reported case. This
information is organized and generated as citations in the Shepard’s publications. The
Shepard’s publications apply “codes” to each citation, including abbreviations such as these:
a. A lowercase a means “appeal.”
b. cc represents a connected case that is different but within the same subject matter.
c. D means “dismissed.”
d. m means “modified.”
e. r means “reversed.”
f. s means “same case.”
g. v stands for “vacated.”
In addition to codes that describe the general treatment of a case, the electronic version of
Shepard’s includes more specific codes.
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