KeyCite Status Flags

West km for Litigation adds a KeyCite status flag next to each citation in your document that has available KeyCite information. These flags allow you to easily evaluate the validity of a case, a statute, a regulation, or an administrative decision.

	In cases and administrative decisions, a red flag warns that the case or administrative decision is no longer good law for at least one of the points of law it contains. In statutes and regulations, a red flag indicates that the statute or regulation has been amended by a recent session law or rule, repealed, superseded, or held unconstitutional or preempted in whole or in part.
	In cases and administrative decisions, a yellow flag warns that the case or administrative decision has some negative history but hasn't been reversed or overruled. In statutes and regulations, a yellow flag warns that the statute has been renumbered or transferred by a recent session law; an uncodified session law or proposed legislation affecting the statute is available (statutes merely referenced, i.e., mentioned, are not marked with a yellow flag); a proposed rule affecting the regulation is available; the regulation has been reinstated, corrected, or confirmed; the statute or regulation was limited on constitutional or preemption grounds or its validity was otherwise called into doubt; or a prior version of the statute or regulation received negative judicial treatment.
	In cases and administrative decisions, a blue H indicates that the case or administrative decision has some history.
	In cases and administrative decisions, a green C indicates that the case or administrative decision has citing references but no direct history or negative citing references. In statutes and regulations, a green C indicates that the statute or regulation has citing references.
	In your organization's documents, a red KC indicates that a citation could not be verified. Click this icon to display one of the following on Westlaw: (1) the document page (not the first page) that you indicated in the citation, (2) a list of documents that are potential matches for the citation, (3) suggestions on the citation format to help you locate the document, or (4) a message indicating the document is not available.
	In your organization's documents, a km citing references icon (which displays after the citation) indicates that the cited document is referenced in other indexed documents at your organization.

To view detailed KeyCite information about a citation, click its KeyCite status flag.

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