QuickCITE® Signals

A QuickCITE® signal appearing next to a case name indicates whether the decision has received positive, negative, cautionary, or neutral treatment in subsequent judgments. The signal is a summary of the annotation information available from the list of appeal proceedings and cases referring to this case, and it also provides a link to the corresponding QuickCITE record. Keep in mind that not every case has a QuickCITE signal.

A QuickCITE® signal appearing next to a statute or regulation name indicates a QuickCITE® legislation citator record is available.

Signal	Summary	Explanation
	Case citation information	A case citation information signal indicates a case citator record is available, but no known history or treatments. Select the signal to view the case citator record.
	Positive treatment	A positive (green) signal indicates the decision has positive history (affirmed, judicial review denied, or leave to appeal refused by a higher court) or positive treatments (followed or followed in a minority opinion of by subsequent court).
	Cautionary treatment	A cautionary (yellow) signal indicates the decision has been subsequently distinguished by a subsequent court.
	Negative treatment	A negative (red) signal indicates the decision has a negative history (judicial review allowed, reconsideration allowed, reversed, quashed, or varied by a higher court) or negative treatments (not followed or questioned by a subsequent court).
	Neutral treatment	A neutral signal indicates the decision has neutral treatments (mentioned, explained, cited, or cited in a dissenting opinion) or has history (abandoned, abated, leave to appeal granted, reconsideration denied, related proceeding, same case, or supplementary reasons by a subsequent court) where the citing court does not comment on the case. Note: A neutral signal is also given to cases that have been added to Lexis Advance within the past 3 business days, but which have not yet been assigned a QuickCITE treatment.
	Legislation citation information	A legislation citation information signal indicates a legislation citator record is available. Select the signal to view the legislation citator record.