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Meta-Index for U.S. Legal Research
[ Judicial Opinions | Legislation | Federal Regulation | Other Legal Sources | People in Law ]
- This page illustrates the use of searchable legal indexes
on the World Wide Web. Only specifically legal
indexes in the U.S. are included. Please note that many of the search
tools here have additional search options available and that to
derive full benefit from them you should visit the original
sites directly.
- This page simply links to search tools at other sites. The
search results returned from each site vary in quality
depending on the search tool in use.
- There are many generic search
tools available, which you should also utilize.
Use of this index: Each search tool starts
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Judicial Opinions
- U.S. Supreme Court Opinions from FindLaw
FindLaw's searchable database of Supreme Court decisions since
1937 (U.S. Supreme Court Decisions: US Reports 300-, 1937-).
Browsable by year and US Reports volume number and searchable by
citation, case title and full text. [I don't usually comment on the
resources here, but this one is wonderful!]
Browsing
Citation Search
Title Search
Full-Text Search
U.S. Supreme Court Syllabi from Cornell's Legal Information Institute, with links to full opinions.
You can search by keyword(s) and use Boolean connectors (and, or, not).
U.S. Supreme Court Opinions (1937 - 1975) from the FLITE database now at Fedworld.
Keyword searching is also available.
Search by case name:
Federal Circuit Opinions, from Emory University School of Law.
D.C. Circuit Opinions, from Georgetown Law Center.
1st Circuit Opinions, from Emory University School of Law.
2nd Circuit Opinions, from Touro Law Center.
3rd Circuit Opinions, from Villanova Center for Information Law and Policy.
More search options are available.
4th Circuit Opinions, from Emory University School of Law.
5th Circuit Opinions, from the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
6th Circuit Opinions, from Emory University School of Law.
7th Circuit Opinions, from Emory University School of Law.
8th Circuit Opinions, from Washington University School of Law.
9th Circuit Opinions, from Villanova Center for Information Law and Policy.
More search options are available.
10th Circuit Opinions, from Emory University School of Law.
11th Circuit Opinions, from Emory University School of Law.
U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Massachusetts from Craig and Macauley, P.C.
Searches the full text of all published decisions of the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Massachusetts from January 1, 1995 to the present.
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Legislation
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Federal Regulation
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Other Legal Sources
- The Legal Domain Network
The Legal Domain Network maintains archives of many law-related
USENET newsgroups, to which anyone in the world can and does
contribute. Several searches on 10/6/96 returned no results.
And, on 01/30/97, it still appears to be broken.
- LawCrawler Powered by AltaVista
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- Findlaw, an index to many legal sources.
This resource will find links to primary legal sources,
government resources, World Wide Web sites, publications, law
school course outlines, software, mailing lists, Usenet
discussion groups, and related FindLaw pages.
- Law Reviews from FindLaw.
- The Seamless Website's searchable database of over 4000 files of legal information.
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