Gleeson Library: COMS 336: Rhetoric of Law: Finding Supreme Court Opinions

Finding Supreme Court Opinions

Supreme Court of the United States
General Information about the Supreme Court, justices, and text of opinions.

ProQuest Supreme Court Insight
Supreme Court Insight, 1933-present, is a complete online collection of full opinions from Supreme Court argued cases, including per decision, dockets, oral arguments, joint appendices and amicus briefs. Content associated with each case is compiled on a dynamic page organized to facilitate understanding of the judicial process, and is also retrievable on a document by document basis.

Justia
Free, searchable opinions from 1790 to the present. Justia also offers browsing by "Recent Opinions," year, and U.S. Reports volume.
Hein Online - U.S. Supreme Court Reports and Slip Opinions
"U.S. Reports" and "U.S. Reports Slip Opinions" are the official publications of Supreme Court decisions. Via HeinOnline you can access the full text of all decisions, from 1754 (Volume 1) to the present.
Oyez
Oyez (pronounced OH-yay)—a free law project from Cornell’s Legal Information Institute (LII), Justia, and Chicago-Kent College of Law—is a multimedia archive devoted to making the Supreme Court of the United States accessible to everyone. It is the most complete and authoritative source for all of the Court’s audio since the installation of a recording system in October 1955. Oyez offers transcript-synchronized and searchable audio, plain-English case summaries, and full-text Supreme Court opinions (through Justia).
FindLaw - U.S. Supreme Court Cases
A collection of Supreme Court decisions, from 1760 to the present.
Google Scholar - Case Law
Select "Federal Courts" to limit results.
Legal Information Institute - Supreme Court
The Legal Information Institute is a not-for-profit based at Cornell Law School. It is known internationally as a leading “law-not-com” provider of public legal information. The website offers all opinions of the United States Supreme Court handed down since 1992, together with over 600 earlier decisions selected for their historic importance.