Research Guides: Legal Studies: Citators

Citators

What is a citator?

A citator is an online tool that helps to track the history of a case and the treatment of the case in subsequent courts. Citators allow you to see if the law is in good standing and acts as a research tool to help you identify cases which have cited the case you are viewing and secondary sources.

There are two types of citators that we have access to at UD:

Shepard's - Nexis Uni

KeyCite - Westlaw

Scroll down this page to see how this is done in each database.

Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window
Nexis Uni (formerly LexisNexis Academic) features more than 15,000 news, business and legal sources with an interface that offers quick discovery across all content types, personalization features such as Alerts and saved searches and a collaborative workspace with shared folders and annotated documents.
Vendor Lyrasis. Publisher LexisNexis.
Westlaw Campus Research This link opens in a new window
Westlaw Campus Research is a research service that combines a breadth of news and business information with in depth law-related information.
Includes:
- Current and archival coverage of newspapers, magazines, broadcast transcripts, wires, and trade journals.
- Company Investigator, an authoritative source for researching and gaining insight on more than 30 million public and private companies.
- Topical categories to refine searches and obtain more precise results.
- Expert analysis from hundreds of law reviews and journals, encyclopedias, and treatises.
- Full-text legislation, regulations, and court decisions.
- Integrated research tools, such as template searching, headnotes, case synopses, West Key Number System®, KeyCite®, and hypertext linking to related documents.
Westlaw Patron Access This link opens in a new window
Westlaw Patron Access provides access to primary materials from both federal and state courts. Information includes cases, statutes, regulations, briefs, dockets, legal forms, secondary sources, KeyCite, Litigation Analytics and more. **On campus use only. Limited to 5 users at a time.**