Cases: Limiting KeyCite Citing References

Limits and Locate in KeyCite

• Roe v. Wade had 12,994 citing references on KeyCite on January 15, 2004.

• A Limit KeyCite Display button allows you to limit the citation results to specified criteria.

Limit KeyCite Display

• Select the desired criteria for your citing reference result.• You can select any number or combination of criteria.• We’ll start by selecting the issue discussed in headnote eight of Roe v. Wade.

You can limit by• Headnote (issue)• Locate• Jurisdiction• Date• Document type• Depth of treatment

8

Locate

The second limitation isa date restrictor.

Click Apply.

Then choose Locate and enter “first trimester.”

Date

Apply

By using the date limit displayed on the last screen and requiring that the phrase first trimester occur in the citing references, we have limited the KeyCite results to the 3 citing documents from the original 12,994 that will be of most use to us.

More About KeyCite Locate

• KeyCite Locate allows you to narrow your KeyCite result to the citing references that contain certain terms.

• Only KeyCite Locate allows you to search for terms that appear in the same paragraph as the cited case. This is an exclusive feature of westlaw.com.®..

• If your KeyCite display contains more than 2,000 citing references, you will need to first limit your results by other criteria.

Question

You can limit the citing references in your KeyCite result by:

• Date

• Type of document

• Headnote

• All of the above

Question

You can limit the citing references in your KeyCite result by:

1. Date

2. Type of document

3. Headnote

4. All of the above