Emory Law School Website

Recent caselaw from Federal and State courts is increasingly available on the web. U.S. Supreme Court decisions are available from the nineteenth century to the current term. Most caselaw websites do not offer full-text searching or a citator for updating. Court websites often include the court's rules and official forms, and sometimes docket information.

1. The Public Library of Law
   Claims to be the largest, free, online U.S. caselaw database.  It includes all Supreme Court cases, U.S. Courts of Appeals cases since 1950 and U.S. state case law from 1997 for all 50 states.  It also links to the codes and statutes, constitutions and regulations for the Federal Government and all 50 states.
   
   
2. Public.Resource.Org
   PRO is “dedicated to making government information more accessible.” It features FedFlix, a free service that offers the United States Government’s best movies, including training films and history.  It also offers many government links (copyright, courts.gov, edgar, gpo.gov, patent and more).
   
   
3. PreCYdent
   A new legal search engine that contains cases and statutes that are in the public domain. Includes more than 900,000 U.S. Supreme Court cases (since 1759), U.S. Courts of Appeals cases (from 1950) and States Court cases.  It features a Google-like search box that ranks results by authority.
   
   
4. Federal Courts Finder
   Emory University School of Law
   Click on the map to link to U.S. Court of Appeals and other federal court decisions.
   
   
5. FindLaw
   U.S. Supreme Court opinions from 1893, recent Court of Appeals decisions. Search by date, party name, or keyword, or browse by date or US Reports volume number. Links to other court opinion sites.
   
   
6. LexisONE
   Free searching for U.S. Supreme Court and selected recent year federal and state cases. Registration required.  Search by citation or using LEXIS search terms.
   
   
7. Supreme Court
   Current term slip opinions from 2000 to current term, plus current term calendar, argument calendar, docket, oral argument transcripts, and court rules.

Judicial Materials

1. LLRX Court rules and forms
   Keyword search or browse by jurisdiction or type of resource. Links to court and commercial sites.
   
   
2. Oyez Project
   Northwestern University
   U.S. Supreme Court oral arguments in Real Audio or as MP3 files; links to written opinions on FindLaw. Docket information and case abstracts, plus biographies of the justices and Supreme Court news.
   
   
3. FindLaw Supreme Court Center
   U.S. Supreme Court docket, decisions, orders, briefs, court rules, calendar.
   
   
4. Federal Rules of Civil Procedure
   Cornell LII
   Folio. Browse by contents list. Also Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure and Federal Rules of Evidence on the Cornell LII site.
   
   Federal rules are also available in PDF on the US Courts web site.