Finding Legal Cases (Opinions)
- Westlaw Campus Research This link opens in a new windowWestlaw is an online legal research service for lawyers and legal professionals in the United States and the United Kingdom and is a product of Thomson Reuters. In addition, it provides proprietary database services. Information resources on Westlaw include more than 40,000 databases of case law, state and federal statutes, administrative codes, newspaper and magazine articles, public records, law journals, law reviews, treatises, legal forms and other information resources. -- Wikipedia
- Google Scholar This link opens in a new windowGoogle Scholar is a freely accessible web search engine that indexes the full text or metadata of scholarly literature across an array of publishing formats and disciplines.
How to Read a Legal Citation
Useful links
- The Oyez ProjectProvides audio files of oral arguments as well as other information about current and historic Supreme Court cases.
- How to read a legal opinionBrief and useful article about what makes up a legal opinion and how to understand it.
Related Books at the Library
Landmark Decisions of the United States Supreme Court by Call Number: REF KF4549 .F56 2003ISBN: 1568027206Publication Date: 2002-01-01
The Oxford Guide to United States Supreme Court Decisions by Call Number: REF KF4548.5 .O97 2009ISBN: 9780195379396Publication Date: 2009-03-11
Latinos and American Law by Call Number: Main Library KF4757.5.L38 A52 2006ISBN: 029271310XPublication Date: 2006-09-01print and ebook
