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-The United States judiciary operates under the principle of stare decisis – a system of legal precedents – to ensure the courts deliver consistent rulings on similar legal issues, regardless of the political or social status of the parties involved. As such, legal professionals must be certain that the legal citations they use to reinforce their arguments are accurate and still “good law.” KeyCite is a unique citation checking service available on [[Westlaw]]. KeyCite leverages Westlaw technologies, West’s attorney-authored case law headnotes and the [[West Key Number System]] to determine and immediately alert legal professionals that case law they are reviewing has been either overturned, or may have history which deems the presidential value of the opinion invalid.
-KeyCite was introduced to Westlaw in 1997 and was the first service to seriously challenge the Sheppard’s citation checking service that legal professionals relied on for generations. Sheppard’s had become such a necessary part of legal research, that citation checking is still informally referred to as “Sheppardizing.”
-In 2004, KeyCite was determined to be the most-used citation checking service in an annual survey of Law Firm technology use conducted by the American Bar Association.