LibraryGuides: Electronic Resources: Case Law

Creighton Resources

Early American Case Law
This database contains coverage of cases from the late 1700s through the 1920s including the entire Federal Cases 30 book series (1894-1897) which contains more than 20,000 cases.

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Also included is the Trinity Series, which features American Decisions, American Reports, and American State Reports.

LLMC

A comprehensive digital archive of historical and legal documents from around the world. Available off campus to faculty, staff, and students.
Making of Modern Law: Trials 1600-1926
The Making of Modern Law: Trials, 1600-1926 encompasses the most celebrated and fascinating trials and crimes of the extensive time period covered.

The trials involving Dred Scott, John Peter Zenger, Susan B. Anthony, Oscar Wilde, the Boston Massacre, Lizzie Borden, Sacco and Vanzetti, Leopold and Loeb, the impeachment of Andrew Johnson, the Bounty mutineers, Salem witchcraft, Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, Aaron Burr, John Brown and Alfred Dreyfus, to name only a few, are included with considerable detail and commentary.
Making of Modern Law: Supreme Court Records and Briefs, 1832-1978
Supreme Court Records & Briefs contains nearly 11 million pages of records and briefs brought before the U.S. Supreme Court in the period 1832-1978, this product provides an essential primary source tool for the study of all aspects of American history as well as the U.S. judicial system.

PACER
The PACER Case Locator (PCL) is a national index for district, bankruptcy, and appellate courts. The PCL serves as a search tool for PACER. You may conduct nationwide searches to determine whether or not a party is involved in federal litigation. Each night, subsets of data are collected from the courts and transferred to the PCL. See a Law Library Reference Librarian and they can conduct a search for you.

Proquest Supreme Court Insight

Supreme Court Insight is an online collection of full opinions from Supreme Court argued cases, including per curiam decisions. Includes dockets, petitions for writ of certiorari, petitioner and respondent briefs, joint appendices and amicus briefs. Transcripts of oral arguments dating back to 1955 are also included. 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. Supreme Court Insight offers links from case-specific records to Legislative Insight and Regulatory Insight for entitled customers.

State Reports: A Historical Archive
State Reports: A Historical Archive provides a digital version of Hein's State Report Checklist along with linking to the full text of historical state reports. This provides researchers with a convenient state-by-state bibliographic guide to published court reports and how they interrelate with the National Reporter System.
U.S. Supreme Court Library
This database includes complete coverage of the official U.S. Reports bound volumes, as well as preliminary prints, slip opinions, and books and periodicals related to the U.S. Supreme Court.
World Trials Library
The World Trials database contains trial transcripts and other critical court documents, but also trial-related resources such as monographs that analyze and debate the decisions of famous trials. It also includes biographies of many of the greatest trial lawyers in history.

Web Links

Appeals to the Privy Council from the American Colonies: An Annotated Digital Catalogue
In the century before the creation of the Supreme Court of the United States, the British Privy Council heard appeals from the 13 colonies that became the United States and from the other American colonies in Canada and the Caribbean. The focus was given to all currently known colonial cases appealed to the Privy Council from the future United States. There are links to original documents in England and the United States for the appeals from the 13 colonies.
8th Circuit Court of Appeals
Official website of the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals.
Landmark Supreme Court Cases
This site was developed to provide teachers with a full range of resources and activities to support the teaching of landmark Supreme Court cases, helping students explore the key issues of each case.
State Court Locator
Links to all 50 state courts provided by the Legal Information Institute.
Supreme Court Database
The Supreme Court Database is a source for researchers, students, journalists, and citizens interested in the U.S. Supreme Court. The Database contains over two hundred pieces of information about each case decided by the Court between starting with the 1791 term.
U.S. Court Locator
Links to the U.S. Supreme Court, and all the U.S. Courts of Appeals, District, and Bankruptcy Courts.
U.S. Court of Appeals Cases and Opinions
Search cases by jurisdiction and browse by series (F.2d or F.3d), by circuit, or by year.
U.S. Courts
Official website of the Federal Judiciary.
U.S. Courts Reference and Directory
Provides an overview of trial court systems in every state and county in the United States.
U.S. Supreme Court
Official website of the U.S. Supreme Court.