Sources of Case Law: Federal and State

Databases:

LexisNexis 

Westlaw

Additional Electronic Sources for:

Supreme Court       Lower Federal Courts        State Courts

Federal Reporters

Reporters cover the Federal Court System and report the opinions of the judges.

Supreme Court:

• CQ Supreme Court Collection
  Part of the CQ Electronic Library, this collection blends historical analysis with timely updates and expert commentary of Supreme Court decisions, biographies of Supreme Court justices, Supreme Court institutional history, and the U.S. Constitution.  This collection contains CQ summaries  of Supreme Court cases from 1969- present.  Case summaries contain a link to Findlaw for the full-text of the case.
  
• Supreme Court Opinions 
  • FindLaw's searchable database of the Supreme Court decisions since 1893. Browsable by year and US Reports volume number and searchable by citation, case title and full text.
• Supreme Court Opinions: 
  • Legal Information Institute offers Supreme Court opinions under the auspicies of project Hermes, the court's electronic dissemination project. This archive contains all opinions of the court issued since May of 1990.
• Supreme Court Decisions 1937-1975: 
  • This system contains the full text of Supreme Court   decisions from 1937-1975, searchable by case name and full text. via   Fedworld
• Analysis and Interpretation of theU.S. Constitution 1992 edition Plus Supplements
  • Senate Document No. 103-6 provides analysis and interpretation of cases decided by the Supreme Court.
• Supreme Court of the United States 
• Federal Court Home page.

In print:

• Supreme Court Reporter (KF 101.U5) - abbreviated S.Ct
• United States Supreme Court Reports/Lawyer's Edition (KF101.A313) -- abbreviated U.S.L.Ed
• United States Law Week (DOC REF K 1.U52) - abbreviated U.S.L.W.
• United States Reports (KF 101.A212) - abbreviated U.S.

Lower Federal Courts

• Circuit Court of Appeals & District Court Opinions via Cornell or via U.S. Courts
• In Print:
  • Federal Reporter (K 484) - abbreviated F.3d. (now in the 3rd series)covers Court of Appeal opinions.
  • Federal Supplement (K 475.N3) - abbreviated F. Supp. covers District Court opinions.

State Reporters & State Courts
 
 Maryland Cases :

• Maryland Cases -Appellate Opinions since 1995

Other States

Link to Other State Court Cases via FindLaw. Select the state, scroll down to the entry for Courts.

In print, and through our electronic legal databases, we subscribe to the West's Series of Regional Reporters. These reporters cover all 50 states divided as follows:

• Atlantic Reporter (K 475.A8) -- abbreviated A.2d
• California Reporter (K 475.C34) -- abbreviated Cal. 3d.
• Maryland Reports (KA 3203.M4 A5) Maryland Court of Appeals Opinions last few years
• Maryland Court of Special Appeals Opinions
• New York Supplement (K 475.N3) -- abbreviated N.Y.S.
• North Eastern Reporter (K 475.N5) -- abbreviated N.E. 2d.
• North Western Reporter (K 475.N7) -- abbreviated N.W. 2d
• Pacific Reporter (K 475.P2) -- abbreviated P. 2d
• South Eastern Reporter (K 475.S5) -- abbreviated S.E. 2d
• Southern Reporter (K 475.S6) -- abbreviated So. 2d
• South Western Reporter (K 475.S7) -- abbreviated S.W. 2d