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- State Essentials provides state case law, annotated state statutes, and options for additional federal material, including cases from Supreme Court Reporter Federal Reporter, Federal Supplement cases from your circuit, and USCA.
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- West's exclusive case law enhancements - The West Key Number System directs you to specific points of law, where headnotes explain each point and case synopses save you time. Extra search terms (e.g., art and legal relationship terms) help you retrieve relevant cases.
- Annotated statutes - Statutory credits show you citations to session laws, while historical and statutory notes reveal the history of a statute. Cross-references and library references lead to key numbers, law reviews, and more, while notes of decisions provide quick summaries of cases.
- KeyCite citation research service - With KeyCite, you can quickly verify that cases, statutes, and regulations are good law and provides links to citing cases, administrative decisions, more than 700 law reviews, and other analytical sources. KeyCite covers more than four million reported cases, 20 million headnotes, one million unpublished decisions, USCA, statutes for all 50 states, and CFR.
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