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Federal Statutes

This guide aims to provide the user with a general understanding in locating and updating known statutes and in identifying federal statutes by citation, name, or subject.
URL: https://libguides.law.ucla.edu/findingfederalstatutes

Finding References to Federal Statutes

Lexis' Shepard’s and Westlaw's KeyCite citators provide citations to cases, attorney general opinions, legal periodical articles and some legal texts which have referred to a particular code or statute. Code sections can be Shepardized by their USC citation and uncodified statutes by their Statutes at Large citation.

  1. Shepard’s Federal Statutes Citations
     
    Library: The Web version is available on public computers in the Reference Reading Room. For public user login, see detailed instructions next to these computers.
    Lexis:

    A Shepardize link may be found on the right side of documents retrieved in Lexis. 

  2. Westlaw’s KeyCite (may access from any viewed item)