diff --git a/src/services/findAllReferences.ts b/src/services/findAllReferences.ts
index eb2998c6e40..0061479133c 100644
--- a/src/services/findAllReferences.ts
+++ b/src/services/findAllReferences.ts
@@ -772,9 +772,11 @@ namespace ts.FindAllReferences.Core {
             case SyntaxKind.Identifier:
                 return (node as Identifier).text.length === searchSymbolName.length;
 
-            case SyntaxKind.StringLiteral:
-                return (isLiteralNameOfPropertyDeclarationOrIndexAccess(node as StringLiteral) || isNameOfExternalModuleImportOrDeclaration(node)) &&
-                    (node as StringLiteral).text.length === searchSymbolName.length;
+            case SyntaxKind.StringLiteral: {
+                const str = node as StringLiteral;
+                return (isLiteralNameOfPropertyDeclarationOrIndexAccess(str) || isNameOfModuleDeclaration(node) || isExpressionOfExternalModuleImportEqualsDeclaration(node)) &&
+                    str.text.length === searchSymbolName.length;
+            }
 
             case SyntaxKind.NumericLiteral:
                 return isLiteralNameOfPropertyDeclarationOrIndexAccess(node as NumericLiteral) && (node as NumericLiteral).text.length === searchSymbolName.length;
@@ -1735,14 +1737,6 @@ namespace ts.FindAllReferences.Core {
         return tryGetClassExtendingExpressionWithTypeArguments(climbPastPropertyAccess(node).parent);
     }
 
-    function isNameOfExternalModuleImportOrDeclaration(node: Node): boolean {
-        if (node.kind === SyntaxKind.StringLiteral) {
-            return isNameOfModuleDeclaration(node) || isExpressionOfExternalModuleImportEqualsDeclaration(node);
-        }
-
-        return false;
-    }
-
     /**
      * If we are just looking for implementations and this is a property access expression, we need to get the
      * symbol of the local type of the symbol the property is being accessed on. This is because our search