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U.S. Supreme Court & U.S. Judicial Branch: Encyclopedias & Statistics

Legal Information Institute at Cornell
Includes Supreme Court Decisions by Topic, a legal encyclopedia and browsable versions of the U.S. Constitution, U.S. Code, C.F.R. and more.

The Oxford guide to United States Supreme Court decisions
Available online

Supreme Court Database
A robust database on Supreme Court cases, 1946 to 2011. You can download datasets or do online analysis.

Supreme Court Yearbook (CQ Press) This link opens in a new window
Provides in-depth coverage of every decision of the U.S. Supreme Court since 1989. Part of the CQ Press collection.

United States Courts
Includes statistics, reports, and information about federal courts and judges. See also the Federal Judicial Center.
Selected Books and Ebooks on Supreme Court Cases
A list of 28 book titles from the catalog

U.S. Supreme Court Opinions, Select Lower Courts and Regulations

United States Reports - HeinOnline
The published bound version of U.S. Supreme Court decisions, 1754-2004. See also, Supreme Court Bound Volumes, 1991-current, HathiTrust and Information About Opinions.
Open Jurist
Includes Supreme Court opinions back to 1790 and lower court decisions back to 1880.
U.S. Supreme Court
The website of the U.S. Supreme Court. See also the Journal of the Supreme Court and the Oyez Project.
Guide to Law Online: U.S. Judiciary
From the Library of Congress Law Library.
Google Scholar
Supreme Court cases since 1791; federal district, appellate, tax, and bankruptcy courts since 1923; state appellate and supreme court cases since 1950. See also FindLaw.

U.S. Supreme Court Oral Arguments, Briefs, Etc.

Oyez
Oral arguments of Supreme Court cases, 1955-current, with accompanying transcripts. Oyez is from IIT Chicago-Trent School of Law.
Landmark briefs and arguments of the Supreme Court of the United States, 1793-1921
Available online in HathiTrust. For other years, use document delivery. See also the Library of Congress guide.
U.S. Supreme Court Briefs, 1936-current
This collection of briefs is from Nexis Uni.

Websites & Digital Archives: Selected Sites

Please note that most of the items accessible from this box are not official government documents, but may be useful in gaining a deeper understanding of such documents.

Accessing the papers of Supreme Court Justices: Online & other resources
Scroll down to view a few online sources for Supreme Court Justice papers.
Civil Rights Digital Library -- Brown v. Board
From the University of Georgia. See also the University of Michigan's archive.
City of St. Louis v. Praprotnik Digital Archive
Includes digitized materials related to Justices Blackmun, Brennan, Marshall, White, and Powell.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Digital Suite -- Harvard University
Includes over 100,000 digitized documents. See especially the "Judicial Career" link.
Slavery and the U.S. Supreme Court: The Amistad Case
Contains over 200 digitized documents, from Tulane University.