General Encyclopedias and Database

 

Encyclopaedia Britannica Online

World Book Online Reference Center

Gale Virtual Reference Library

 

 

Websites

 

Bill of Rights Institute

Select a category along the left to find landmark cases in that area.

Cornell Law School Legal Information Institute--Supreme Court Collection

All decisions back to 1990 listed by topic and searchable 

Findlaw Supreme Court Center

Searchable by party name, decision date, oral argument date, and topic.  Briefs posted for downloading

Historical Supreme Court Decisions - FedWorld.gov/FLITE

Archive of over 7,400 Supreme Court opinions from 1937 to June 1975.  Seachable by case name or by keyword

The Jurist

Updated links to everything said about the Supreme Court in the mainstream media.  Good also for Federal Courts

Landmark Supreme Court Cases

Some important cases are listed on the left; key concepts on the right lead to cases

Oyez Project:  U.S. Supreme Court Multimedia Database

Information about major cases decided by the Supreme Court including digital recordings of the Court's proceedings including oral arguments.  Link to the written opinions of the court in all cases since 1891.

 

Streetlaw

Lists the biggest cases

 

Supreme Court of the United States

General information on the Court, as well as access to the Court's term slip opinions, Term orders, argument calendar, schedules, rules, bar admission forms and instructions, case-handling guides, special notices, and press releases.

 

Villanova University School of Law Federal Court Locator

Supreme Court and Federal District Court of Appeals decisions, including slip opinions.  Searchable.

 

 

1/7/2013