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About WestCheck
WestCheck is an automated citation-checking tool that verifies KeyCite status, retrieves cited documents, creates cited-decisions lists, and checks quotation accuracy via QuoteRight.
WestCheck is an automated citation-checking tool that verifies the status of citations in your legal document or in a citation list you create manually. Use the WestCheck tool to:
- Check the status of your citations in KeyCite.
- Create a Cited Decisions list of cases cited by your case.
- Access QuoteRight to verify the accuracy of quotations in your documents.
- Retrieve full-text versions of cited documents.
WestCheck is available via:
- Software integrated into Microsoft Word.
- Online software at drafting.westlaw.com.
- Microsoft Word add-in
- Word Online.
KeyCite
Use the Thomson Reuters KeyCite® citation checking service to instantly verify whether a case, statute, regulation, or administrative decision is good law, and to find citing references to support your legal argument. KeyCite integrates with the West Key Number System so you can track legal issues discussed in a case. In addition, KeyCite provides information such as:
- Direct appellate history of cases and administrative decisions.
- Negative citing references for cases and administrative decisions.
- Citations to cases, administrative decisions, secondary sources, briefs, and other court documents that have cited a case, statute, administrative decision, or regulation.
- Citations to session laws or rules amending or repealing a statute or regulation.
- Citations to proposed legislation affecting a federal or state statute.
KeyCite covers every case in the National Reporter System, as well as more than 1 million unpublished cases. KeyCite information is also available for federal and state statutes and regulations, administrative decisions from selected states, patents issued by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, American Law Reports (ALR) annotations, articles from hundreds of law reviews, and administrative decisions of selected federal agencies. In addition, KeyCite provides citing references from numerous texts and treatises.
Find
When you know the citation of the document you want, WestCheck can retrieve the full text of the document and send it to a destination you choose. The
Find
service is available for many types of documents, including case law, statutes, regulations, administrative decisions, articles from publications such as law reviews and treatises, specialized materials (for example, OSHA inspection and enforcement reports), and materials published in foreign countries.Cited Decisions
While KeyCite lists cases citing your case, the
Cited Decisions
service lists the cases cited by your case. Cited Decisions gives you an idea of whether the precedent value of the case you are citing has been eroded. Cited Decisions is also available for ALR annotations, law review articles, and selected administrative decisions.Cited Decisions is a useful tool for finding hidden weaknesses in a case because it shows whether the cases on which your case relies have significant negative history. The Cited Decisions result lets you determine at a glance, which cited cases merit investigation.
- Cited cases are marked with KeyCite status flags, which indicate whether the cases have history or citing references available in KeyCite.
- Each cited case is marked with depth of treatment stars that indicate the extent to which the citing case discusses the cited case.
- Quotation marks indicate when a citing case directly quotes the cited case.
QuoteRight
Use QuoteRight to verify the accuracy of quotations cited in your document. When WestCheck extracts citations from your document, it also creates a list of quotations found in your document. You can choose to have the QuoteRight service check these quotations against the full text of the documents.
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