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The information in this article applies to the following LexisNexis® products and services: Lexis+®, Lexis®

The documents available online are comprised of different parts referred to as segments. You can use segment searching to run your search in specific areas of the documents to give you more precise results for your research. You can use segments to construct a search in the Search box and also in Search Within Results while reviewing your results. Segment searching works in Natural Language and Terms and Connectors searches.

To use a segment in your search, enter the name of the segment and put your search in parentheses next to the segment name. For example, to find all statutes with consumer protection in the HEADING, run the following search: heading("consumer protection")

The following list includes additional information about constructing your search using segments:

  • You can use wildcards and universal characters in the segments. For more information, see How Do I Search for Variations of Words? .
  • Stemming works in segments, and the service automatically searches for other forms of some words. For example, hlead(amend) finds the terms amend, amended, amending, and other forms of amend. For more information, see How Do I Search for Variations of Words? .
  • If your search includes a segment not available in a particular Category, you receive no results for that content type. For example, the search company(lexisnexis) retrieves no results in Statutes and Legislation.
  • Some segments have specific guidelines or additional information available about how they work. For more information about these segments, see Additional information about specific segments below.

When you search with segments, the Navigate all terms feature only highlights and displays terms as they appear within the segment searched. When you search only with segments, you may see very little or no information on the Results list, depending on the segment you used in the search. For example, if your search only runs in the NAME segment, the service does not have an entire paragraph or many hits to display on the Results list. On the other hand, a search in the HEADING segment may display more information depending on the document type and the information contained in the heading.

At this time, printing specific segments from the document is not available.

All Available Segments

The available segments on the Lexis service depend on the Category you are using for your research. For example, segments available in Cases may not be available in News because the different types of documents in the categories do not have the same parts. Segment searching is available in all Categories.

If your search includes a segment not available in a particular Category, you receive no results for that content type. For example, the search company(lexisnexis) retrieves no results in Statutes and Legislation.

Note: Many Advanced Search forms include a Segment Examples graphic on the right side of the page. Click the graphic to see a sample document with the different segments displayed. This will help you understand which segments to use in your search. For additional information, see Using Advanced Search Forms .

The following table shows the segments available within the following category types:

Content Type Available Segments
Cases ATTORNEY, CITE, CONCUR, CONCURBY, CORE-TERMS, COURT, DISPOSITION, DISSENT, DISSENTBY, HEADNOTES, HISTORY, LN-SUMMARY, JUDGES, NAME, NUMBER, OPINION, OPINIONBY, OUTCOME, OVERVIEW, SUMMARY, and WRITTENBY

Notes:
  • SUMMARY searches both court provided and LexisNexis® created summaries.
  • LexisNexis editors added the DISPOSITION segment in federal cases from the early 1990s through March 2005. From March 2005 to the present, we reproduce this segment if we receive the disposition from the court.
Statutes and Legislation Codes CITE, HEADING, HISTORY, PUBLICATION, RULE, SECTION, TEXT, and UNANNO

Notes:
  • TEXT searches the text only; it excludes annotations and related editorial content
  • UNANNO includes the text of the statutes, the History, Notes, and Commentary
Court Rules CITE, HEADING, HISTORY, PUBLICATION, RULE, SECTION, STATUS, and UNANNO.
Public Laws/ALS CITE, HEADING, HISTORY, PUBLICATION, and TEXT
Bill Text CITE, CONGRESS, NAME, PUBLICATION, STATUS, SUMMARY, and TITLE

Note: NAME searches for the bill's sponsors.
Legislative Histories CITE, CONGRESS, HEADING, NAME, NUMBER, PUBLICATION, PUBLICATION-TYPE, STATUS, SUMMARY, TEXT, and TITLE
Bill Tracking CITE, CONGRESS, NAME, PUBLICATION, STATUS, SUMMARY, TEXT, and TITLE
Congressional Record CITE, CONGRESS, NAME, PUBLICATION, TEXT, and TITLE
Constitutions CITE, HEADING, HISTORY, PUBLICATION, RULE, SECTION, and UNANNO
Municipal Codes CITE, HEADING, HISTORY, PUBLICATION, and TITLE
Treaties CITE, PUBLICATION, PARTIES,  TEXT and TITLE
Secondary Materials Treatises & Guides CITE, FOOTNOTE, HEADING, PUBLICATION, SECTION, and TITLE
Jurisprudences AUTHOR, CITE, FOOTNOTE, PUBLICATION, SECTION, and TITLE
Law Reviews and Journals AUTHOR, CITE, FOOTNOTE, LENGTH, NAME, PUBLICATION, SUMMARY, and TITLE

Notes:
  • NAME strictly searches for a specific author. The AUTHOR segment searches the author as well as acknowledgements of other people and contributors.
  • SUMMARY is only available in the Journal of Health & Life Sciences Law.
Restatements CITE, HEADING, PUBLICATION, RULE, and SECTION
Expert Analysis ATTORNEY, CITE, NAME, PUBLICATION, and SUMMARY
CLE Course of Study Materials AUTHOR, CITE, HEADING, PUBLICATION, and SECTION
Dictionaries PUBLICATION
Practice Insights CITE, SECTION, and TITLE
Reference Indices COMPANY, NAME, PUBLICATION, TERM, and TITLE
Administrative Materials AGENCY, ATTORNEY, CITE, COMPANY, DISSENTBY, HEADING, HEADNOTES, NAME, NUMBER, JUDGES, OPINIONBY, PUBLICATION, RELEASE-NO, RULE, SEC-REPLY, SECTION, STATUS, SUMMARY, TITLE, and WRITTENBY
Briefs, Pleadings and Motions

Note: Not all documents that also appear under Other Court Documents include searchable segments.		 Briefs ATTORNEY, CITE, COURT, JUDGES, NAME, NUMBER, SUMMARY, and TITLE
Pleadings ATTORNEY, CITE, COURT, JUDGES, NAME, NUMBER, and TITLE
Motions ATTORNEY, CITE, COURT, JUDGES, NAME, NUMBER, and TITLE
Administrative Codes and Regulations Administrative Codes AUTHORITY, CITE, HEADING, HISTORY, PUBLICATION, RULE, SECTION, STATUS, TEXT and UNANNO

Notes:
  • TEXT searches the text only; it excludes annotations and related editorial content
  • UNANNO includes the text of the regulations/codes, the History, Notes, and Commentary
Registers ACTION, ADDRESS, AGENCY, CITE, HEADING, HISTORY, PUBLICATION, SUMMARY and TEXT

Note: SUMMARY is only available in registers that include a summary or synopsis, such as the Federal Register. Not all state registers include a summary or synopsis.
Regulation Text CITE, HEADING, TITLE, PUBLICATION, SUMMARY, and STATUS
Regulation Tracking CITE, COMPANY, PUBLICATION, SUMMARY, STATUS, and TITLE
Sample Forms CITE, PUBLICATION, SECTION, and TITLE
News BODY, BYLINE, COMPANY, HEADLINE, HLEAD, LENGTH, PUBLICATION, PUBLICATION-TYPE, SECTION, SHOW, TERM, TICKER, and TITLE

Notes:
  • TERM and COMPANY search the SmartIndexing terms but do not search the relevancy rankings
  • Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU): HEADLINE, SECTION, TERM, PUBLICATION-TYPE
Legal News BYLINE, CITE, COMPANY, DEPARTMENT, HLEAD, HEADLINE, LENGTH, PUBLICATION, PUBLICATION-TYPE, TICKER, and TITLE

Note:  The TERM segment can be used to search Legal News, but not all sources in Legal News use the TERM segment. Using the TERM segment in your search will not retrieve documents from all sources. 
Jury Verdicts and Settlements ATTORNEY, AWARD, CITE, COURT, HEADLINE, JUDGES, NAME, NUMBER, SUMMARY, and TITLE

Notes:
  • NAME searches both the party names and expert names on these documents.
  • Search the AWARD segment using the =, >, and < symbols. Do not include commas or other monetary symbols in the award amount.
  • Be careful using segments when creating searches as these documents are from different publishers and thus may not contain the same data from document to document. 
Jury Instructions Jury Instruction Filings ATTORNEY, CITE, COURT, JUDGES, NAME, NUMBER, and TITLE
Pattern Jury Instructions CITE, NUMBER, PUBLICATION, SECTION, and TITLE
Expert Witness Materials Expert Witness Challenges CITE, COURT, EXPERT, JUDGES, PUBLICATION, and SUMMARY
Expert Witness Resumes and CV CITE, COMPANY, and NAME
Expert Witness Summaries CITE and NAME
Expert Witness Testimony and Reports ATTORNEY, CITE, COURT, EXPERT, JUDGES, NAME, NUMBER, and TITLE
Expert Witness Trial & Deposition Transcripts ATTORNEY, CITE, COURT, JUDGES, NAME, NUMBER, and TITLE
United States Supreme Court Transcripts ATTORNEY, CITE, COURT, JUDGES, NAME, NUMBER, and TITLE
Company Financial Analyst Reports COMPANY, HEADLINE, PUBLICATION, PUBLICATION-TYPE, SIC, STATE, and TICKER
Company Profiles ADDRESS, CITY, COMPANY, EMPLOYEES, MSA, NAICS, PUBLICATION, PUBLICATION-TYPE, REVENUE, SIC,  STATE, SUMMARY and TICKER.

Note:  When using the REVENUE and EMPLOYEES segment, you must use parens and do not include any punctuation. You can use >, < or = in your search.
For example:  state(ohio) and revenue(>5000000000) and employees
Mergers and Acquisitions COMPANY, FIRM, PUBLICATION, PUBLICATION-TYPE, REVENUE, SIC, STATE, SUMMARY, and TICKER

Note: In addition to the segments above, the VeriGift Charitable Giving by iWave source has additional segments:
  • VeriGift Charitable Giving by iWave: CATEGORY, DONATION-TYPE, DONATION-YEAR, DONOR, RECIPIENT, STATE, TRANSACTION, and ZIP
SEC Filings ADDRESS, COMPANY, FORM, FORM-TYPE, PUBLICATION, SIC, STATE, and TICKER

Note: FORM-TYPE searches the SEC form type, such as Form 10-K. FORM searches the SEC form type, such as Form 10-K and the exhibit number and exhibit name, such as Exhibit 21 or "Subsidiaries of the Registrant."
Directories
Business Leader Directories COMPANY, NAME, PUBLICATION, and PUBLICATION-TYPE
Newsworthy Person Directories NAME, PUBLICATION, and PUBLICATION-TYPE
Expert Witness Directories CITE, NAME, and PUBLICATION
Government Official Directories CONGRESS, NAME, PUBLICATION, PUBLICATION-TYPE, and SECTION
Judge Directories COURT, NAME, JUDGES, and PUBLICATION
Scientist Directories NAME
Scientific Medical References AUTHOR, NAME, PUBLICATION, and PUBLICATION-TYPE
Scientific Publications AUTHOR, CITE, COMPANY, HLEAD, HEADLINE, PUBLICATION, PUBLICATION-TYPE, SECTION, and TITLE

Note: HEADLINE and TITLE do not work in the Medline materials.
Intellectual Property Copyrights TITLE, NUMBER, NAME, CLAIMANT, OWNERS, AUTHOR, CLASS, DATE, REGIS-DATE, PUBLICATION-DATE, CONTENTS, ASSIGNEE, ASSIGNOR
Trademarks NAME, SERIAL-NO, STATUS-CODE, STATUS-DATE, ACTIVE, PTO-STATUS-CODE, PTO-STATUS-DATE, GOODSSERVICES, INTL-CLASS, US-CLASS

Additional Information About Specific Segments

The following list includes additional information about using specific segments in your search:

  • You can use TITLE as an equivalent to the NAME segment in Cases.
  • The SUMMARY segment in Cases searches in court provided and LexisNexis created summaries. Only a few courts actually provide summaries, including the U.S. Supreme Court, some Washington state courts, and California courts.
  • In the COURT segment, term equivalents are not recognized so you must spell out the name of a specific court. For example, the search court(2nd circuit) does not retrieve cases where the name of the court is spelled out as Second Circuit. To ensure you retrieve all variations, include those variations in your search, such as court(2nd circuit or second circuit).

Variants for Segments

Current Alternative(s)
ACTION ACTIONS
ATTORNEY ATTORNEYS
AUTHOR AUTHORS
CORE-TERMS CORE-TERM, CORETERMS, CORETERM
DEPARTMENT DEPARTMENTS
FIRM FIRMS
FOOTNOTE FOOTNOTES
FORM FORMS
HEADNOTES HEADNOTE
JUDGES JUDGE
NAME NAMES
NUMBER NUMBERS
RULE RULES
SECTION SECTIONS
TERM TERMS
TITLE TITLES
 
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