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KeyCite® combines West's rich tradition of editorial excellence with leading-edge technological expertise to bring you the most complete, accurate and up-to-the-minute citation service. As innovative as it is useful, KeyCite® is the revolutionary citation service on Westlaw®, the industry's premier legal research service.

Researchers use KeyCite® to instantly verify whether a case, statute, administrative decision or regulation is good law, and to find citing references to support and strengthen a legal argument.

KeyCite® and KeyCite® Alert provide the most accurate, timely and comprehensive results and the greatest benefit to legal researchers.

-- Legal Research Center

With KeyCite, you can:

• Trace the history of a case, statute, administrative decision or regulation to determine if it is good law.
• Retrieve a list of all citing cases, statutes, proposed legislation, administrative decisions and analytical sources related to your case.
• Locate the most pertinent authority to help you develop a complete understanding of your legal issue.
• Identify weaknesses in an opponent's case with "Table of Authorities" precision and accuracy.
• Receive instant notification of changes in the law with KeyCite® Alert.
• Get a pictorial view of the direct history of a case with Graphical KeyCite® -- a Westlaw® exclusive! 

Why choose KeyCite?

• It's the most current and accurate citator available: West attorney editors put every case through a rigorous editorial analysis before making KeyCite® history assignments and they do it fast! You'll find a case's direct history on KeyCite® within four hours of us receiving it; overruled cases are identified within 24 hours.
• It's easy to use: KeyCite®'s red and yellow warning flags tell you at a glance whether your document has negative history. These easy-to-recognize symbols make it nearly impossible to overlook history that could undermine your argument. And depth-of-treatment stars save valuable time by helping you focus on the most important citing references.
• It's integrated with Westlaw® and the West Key Number System®: Using KeyCite® means tapping into the power of Westlaw and the West Key Number System®, the most precise and accurate tool for finding on-point law. KeyCite® gives you up-to-the-minute coverage of cases, state statutes, USCA® and regulations, as well as more citing references and the most comprehensive collection of analytical sources anywhere.
• KeyCite® Alert automatically notifies you when important developments occur that affect the cases, statutes, administrative decisions, regulations and law review articles that matter most to you.
  

• KeyCite® provides the full text of West's headnotes, so you can quickly limit your citing references to a relevant point of law without having to go somewhere else to read the headnote and find out whether it is on point.
• Complete coverage of all federal and state cases in West's National Reporter System®.
• More than 1 million unpublished decisions.
• Full coverage of United States Code Annotated®, the premier source for federal statutes.
• Proposed legislation that may affect a federal or state statute.
• Full coverage of statutes from all 50 states.
• The complete Code of Federal Regulations.
• Full coverage of administrative decisions from the BCA, BIA, EPA, FCC, FERC, FLRA, CG, NLRB, PTO, PUR, SEC, and USPQ.
• Full coverage of IRS administrative decisions (Rev Rul, Rev Proc, PLR, TAM, TD, TDO, FSA, LB, LGM, CCA, SCA).
• Content from over 700 law reviews.
• More analytical sources than any other citator.
  

KeyCite® is an online service delivered via Westlaw®.

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