Short Dictionary of (mostly American) Legal Terms and Abbreviations.
Shepard's Citations — In legal research, Shepard s Citations is the best known citator, a list of all the authorities citing a particular case, statute, or other legal authority. The name derives from a legal service begun by Frank Shepard (1848 1900) in 1873, when… … Wikipedia
Shepard — may refer to: *Shepard, Alberta, a hamlet in Canada *Shepard (comics), a character in the Marvel Comics Universe *Shepard (name) *Shepherd, a common typoee also*Shepherd (disambiguation) *Sheppard *Shepard tone *Shepard Settlement, New York… … Wikipedia
Louis C. Shepard — Infobox Military Person name= Louis Capet Shepard born= Birth date|1841|9|2 died= Death date and age|1919|4|27|1841|9|2 placeofbirth= Ashtabula, Ohio placeofdeath= Danbury, Ohio placeofburial= caption=Ordinary Seaman Louis C. Shepard nickname=… … Wikipedia
Shepardize — Shep·ard·ize / she pər ˌdīz/ vt ized, iz·ing: to look up (a case citation) in Shepard s Citations esp. in order to check the status of the case, parallel citations, or the use of the case in other jurisdictions ◇ Shepard s Citations is a citator… … Law dictionary
Citator — In legal research, a citator is a citation index of legal resources, one of the best known of which in the United States is Shepard s Citations. Given a reference of a legal decision, a citator allows the researcher to find newer documents which… … Wikipedia
Westlaw — is one of the primary online legal research services for lawyers and legal professionals in the United States and is a part of West and Thomson Reuters. In addition, it provides proprietary database services. Westlaw gives subscribers unique… … Wikipedia
William Guthrie Packard — (October 13, 1889 – November 19, 1987) owned Shepard s Citations and served the company for 51 years rising to the position of President and Chairman of the Board. He is the namesake of Packard Stadium, the home of Arizona State University… … Wikipedia
Российский индекс научного цитирования — (РИНЦ) библиографическая база данных научных публикаций российских ученых. Для получения необходимых пользователю данных о публикациях и цитируемости статей на основе базы данных РИНЦ разработан аналитический инструментарий ScienceIndex.… … Википедия
Citation index — A citation index is a kind of bibliographic database, an index of citations between publications, allowing the user to easily establish which later documents cite which earlier documents. The first citation indices were legal citators such as… … Wikipedia
Wexis — is a humorous portmanteau used to refer to the alleged duopoly of publishing conglomerates that dominate the U.S. legal information services industry mdash; namely, West Publishing and LexisNexis. [Jean McKnight, Wexis versus the Net, Illinois… … Wikipedia
