About KeyCite Status Flags

KeyCite helps confirm whether legal authorities are good law and highlights their status and citing history using flags and icons (red, yellow, blue, H, C, and warnings).
KeyCite is a citation research service, which helps you determine whether your case, statute, administrative decision, or federal regulation is good law and find cases and other sources that cite it. A red, yellow, or blue striped flag; blue H; or green C indicates that KeyCite information is available for the associated document. A KeyCite status flag lets you know immediately the status of a case, statute, regulation, rule, or administrative decision.
Red Flag
In cases and administrative decisions, a red flag warns that the case or administrative decision is no longer good law for at least one of the points of law it contains.
In statutes and regulations, a red flag warns that the statute or regulation has been amended by a recent session law or rule, repealed, superseded, or held unconstitutional or preempted in whole or in part.
Overruling Risk Icon
In these cases, an Overruling Risk icon warns that the case relies on another case or proposition from another case that has been explicitly overruled. For example, Case A is explicitly over-ruled or abrogated by Case B, but Case C, which cites case A for the same proposition that was overruled is not mentioned in Case B. Case C is implicitly overruled by Case B, and thus will display the Overruling Risk warning.
Yellow Flag
In cases and administrative decisions, a yellow flag warns that the case or administrative decision has some negative history, but hasn’t been reversed or overruled.
In statutes and regulations, a yellow flag warns that the statute has been renumbered or transferred by a recent session law; that an uncodified session law or proposed legislation affecting the statute is available (statutes merely referenced, that is, mentioned, are not marked with a yellow flag); that a proposed rule affecting the regulation is available; that the regulation has been reinstated, corrected, or confirmed; that the statute or regulation was limited on constitutional or preemption grounds or its validity was otherwise called into doubt; or that a prior version of the statute or regulation received negative judicial treatment.
Blue Striped Flag
A blue-striped flag indicates a document has been appealed to the U.S. Courts of Appeals or the U.S. Supreme Court (excluding appeals originating from agencies).
Blue H
In cases and administrative decisions, a blue H indicates that the case or administrative decision has some history.
Green C
In cases and administrative decisions, a green C indicates that the case or administrative decision has citing references but no direct history or negative citing references. In statutes and regulations, a green C indicates that the statute or regulation has citing references.
Red U
Citations that are unverified or that contain potential errors are display with an Unverified tag next to them.
Red M
The red M indicates that the case title provided in the document doesn’t match the reporter citation that Drafting Assistant has validated. The validated reporter citation will display the Westlaw flag associated with that citation, if any. The red M flag will appear immediately in front of the potentially incorrect title. Additional revisions may be needed to ensure that the title cited is correct or if the reporter citation has been entered incorrectly.

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