The internet sources listed below are primarily useful for finding the full text of Supreme Court decisions. They usually will not give analysis, background, etc., of cases. Also note that Supreme Court decisions are written in “legalese” and are frequently more than 50 pages long.
- United States Supreme Court official website - This is the best site for current decisions. For older decisions, use one of the sites below.
- Legal information institute; Supreme Court Collection - Use this site to find some important cases issued prior to 1893. You can search for historic decisions by case name or by topic.
- Find Law - Use this site for decisions issued from 1893-present. The easiest way to find a case is to browse by year and then find the case name in the list.
- Google Scholar - Search and find the full text of US Supreme Court options, decisions from all other federal courts back to 1923 and a state courts from 1950’s. Be sure to select the legal options and journals before searching.
- Oyez - Oyez (pronounced oh-yay) is supported by Cornell University's Legal Information Institute, the Illinois Institutes of Technology's Chicago-Kent College of Law and Justia.com.
