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KeyPoints Federal
A Legal Research Newsletter for Federal Government from West
October 2007

What If I Need to Use Pinpoint Citations?

For some work product you may want pinpoint citations, i.e., citations to the print pages on which the cited materials appear. Star Paging is a Westlaw feature that automatically displays the page numbers of cases appearing in print publications. Star Paging for United States Reports in the All U.S. Supreme Court Cases database (SCT) is current as of the most recent advance sheets received at West.* At present, United States Reports advance sheets, published by the Government Printing Office (GPO), are several years behind the date of decision.**


* United States Reports page numbers are marked with one asterisk (*615) while Supreme Court Reporter® page numbers have two asterisks (**2594).

** West receives lists of the starting pages of the United States Reports from the U.S. Supreme Court. West adds parallel citations to United States Reports from these lists to documents in SCT.