What does SNT stand for?

As it relates to document display.

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paul.buchanan.1

SNT stands for - Most Severe Negative Treatment, or 'Severest' Negative Treatment. This is a line of text including a treatment and citation along with a KeyCite flag that appears at the top of WestlawNext documents. Esentially, the SNT document is the one that caused the flag color on the current doc to be what it is. For instance, for Miranda v. Arizona, the SNT text currently is:

KeyCite Yellow Flag - Superseded by Statute as Stated in U.S. v. Dickerson, 4th Cir.(Va.), February 8, 1999

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brian.schuweiler

Some additional details:

The severest negative treatment is the document from a given caselaw document's direct history chain that had the most negative treatment on that case. Many different decisions/opinions in the cases direct (appellate) chain (at any point in the chain) may negatively treat the document in question and cause a KC flag but the SNT is the one chosen by business rules we apply that is considered to be the most severe. To the users it is a fast indicator as to why a document has a negative KeyCite flag (red for severe, yellow for mild).

Relationships that make up the direct (appellate) history chain are determined by both automated and manual publishing and editorial systems. Their treatments as part of that chain are also determined by these systems or editorial actions.

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