Shepardizing
SHEPARDIZING
A term used in the legal profession to describe the process of using a citator to discover the history of a case or statute to determine whether it is still good law.
The expression is derived from the act of using Shepard's Citations. An individual checking a citation by shepardizing a case will be able to find out various information, such as how often the opinion has been followed in later cases and whether a particular case has been overruled or modified.
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