This tutorial describes the Shepard's ® Summary, and discusses how to use the Navigation bar. It begins with the Shepard's report for McNeil v Economic Labarotory, Inc. (800 F.2d 111).
The Shepard's Summary gives you a quick analysis of the entire Shepard's ® report. In the summary, you'll find the Shepard's Signal ™ indicator for the case located to the left of the item in the report which caused the signal. The summary also includes a list of the editorial phrases that appear in the Shepard's report.
The summary also indicates if the Subsequent Apellate History contains negative treatment and shows which other citing sources used the case.
The last line of the Summary identifies the LexisNexis ® Headnotes of the case you Shepardized ® that have been matched to the text of some of the cases listed in the Shepard’s report. You can learn more about LexisNexis Headnotes in Shepard’s reports in another tutorial module.
Links in the summary let you quickly move to important information in the report. For example, selecting the phrase "Overruled" takes you to the first occurrence of that phrase in the report.
If you have the Lower Navigation Frame enabled, you can use the Navigation Bar to move to subsequent occurrences of the same phrase. For example, select the Next Citing Reference arrow, and the research system jumps to the second occurrence of the phrase.
The Navigation Bar drop-list lets you quickly jump to the editorial phrases and jurisdictions in the report. Note that the drop-list includes the number of occurrences for each phrase or jurisdiction. You can also use the drop-down to jump to law reviews, treatises, annotated statutes, and secondary sources.
This concludes the Using the Shepard's Summary & Navigation Bar tutorial. Now you can:
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