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Shepard’s Citations refers to _____________________.
  1. A formal system for the citation of legal authorities in pleadings, motions, and law review articles.
  2. Legal citators that list every case in a jurisdiction and show every subsequent case that has cited the listed case.
  3. Legal citators that list every case in a case reporter, show every subsequent case that has cited the listed case, and provide the treatment of the cited case by the citing case.
  4. An index that cross-references the headnotes in the digests of different case reporter series.
Explanation
Answer: C - Legal citators that list every case in a case reporter, show every subsequent case that has cited the listed case, and provide the treatment of the cited case by the citing case. The traditional printed version of Shepard’s Citations was developed as a means of identifying subsequent cases that cite to a given case and determine if the later case overruled the earlier case.
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