United States Supreme Court Digest, 1754 To Date (West's)
See Volume 15: TABLE OF CASES
REFERENCE  KF101 .A215 V.15 CATALOG RECORD

Shepard's United States Citations: Cases
REFERENCE  KF105.2 .S56 CATALOG RECORD 

Pollak Library Research Guide: Shepard's Citation Indexes / by Linda Heichman

Shepard's Acts and Cases by Popular Name
REFERENCE  KF90 .S52 1999 PTS. 1-3 CATALOG RECORD
Indexes the more important laws and court cases by their popular names.

United States Supreme Court Digest, 1754 To Date (West's)    top
REFERENCE  KF101 .A215 CATALOG RECORD

Pollak Library Research Guide: Using West's Digest to Find Cases by Subject / by SusanTschabrun

To find a Case by Name:

Go to Volume 16: See volumes with spine title TABLE OF CASES

 

To Find a Case by Keyword or Subject:
Go to Volume1: DESCRIPTIVE WORD INDEX

Example 1: To find cases on school desegregation, go to entry SCHOOL DESEGREGATION. You will find SCHOOLS [KEY]13. Go to the volume in which SCHOOLS would alphabetically fall--see spine titles--and then scan down to [KEY] 13. 
Example 2: To find cases about CHILD WITNESSES, go to CHILD, then scan down until you find CHILDREN AND MINORS--WITNESSES. Notice that the topic is WITNESSES [KEY] 40. Next go to the volume in which WITNESSES would alphabetically fall--see spine titles--and then scan down to [KEY] 40.

 

To find a Case by Topic & Key Number:

Scan the spines of volumes for the topic. If you do not see the topic you are researching, see To Find a Case by Keyword or Subject above. Then scan the volume for the key number. There are 414 digest topics—the list of  topics appears at the front of each digest volume.

 

WORDS AND PHRASES
Go to Volume 16: WORDS AND PHRASES

These volumes help find cases that have defined specific legal terms. It is lists of words or phrases that have been judicially defined in the cases indexed by the Digest and sets out the headnotes, titles, and citations of the case in which the definition appears.
EXAMPLES: Fighting Words, Reckless Disregard, Rule of Four, Treason

Index to the reports of the Supreme Court of the United States: embracing all the reported decisions of the court from its organization to the present date [1878]
REFERENCE  KF101.6 .M99 1980 CATALOG RECORD
Indexes the very earliest cases.

Supreme Court of the United States, 1789-1980: an index to opinions arranged by justice
REFERENCE  KF101.6 .B57 1983 CATALOG RECORD
This index is valuable to historians studying a specific period of the Court's history because the opinions are arranged by justice.

Words and Phrases (West's)    top
REFERENCE  KF156 .W6 CATALOG RECORD
Permanent ed. 1658 to date. All judicial constructions and definitions of words and phrases by the State and Federal courts from the earliest times, alphabetically arranged and indexed.

U.S. CITATORS 
Citators are used to determine and verify if the researched case is still good case law, i.e., the case still has precedential value and has not been overruled or somehow distinguished.

Pollak Library Research Guide: Shepard's Citation Indexes / by Linda Heichman

Shepard's United States Citations: Cases     top
REFERENCE  KF105.2 .S56 CATALOG RECORD
Gives case citation tracings for U.S. Supreme Court cases in all three reporters: U.S. Supreme Court Reports, Supreme Court Reports Lawyers Edition and West's Supreme Court Reporter. Begins with Volume 1 of each reporter and continues to current date. 

Shepard's United States Citations
REFERENCE  KF78 .S56 CATALOG RECORD 
See volumes with Court Rules on spine. Then see Table of Contents for Supreme Court Reports. Gives citations for cases in United States Supreme Court Reports, Supreme Court Reports Lawyers Edition, and Supreme Court Reporter.

U.S. MAJOR CASES--ENCYCLOPEDIAS         top

U.S.—INTERNET SOURCES  

Historic Supreme Court Decisions by Topic [Cornell LII]
Historic Supreme Court Decisions by Party Name [Cornell LII]

United States Supreme Court Official Web Site    top
     Slip opinions, 1999-current date
    Bound volumes: Volume 502(1991) - 530(1999) or current date

Highlights of the Supreme Court's 2007-2008 Term

Highlights of the Supreme court's 2006-2007 Term

Highlights of the Supreme Court's 2005-0606 Term

Highlights of the Supreme Court's 2004-2005 Term

Highlights of the Supreme Court's 2003-2004 Term

Highlights of the Supreme Court's 2002-2003 Term

FindLaw
    Decisions 1893-current date
   Browsable by year and U.S. Reports volume number
   Searchable by citation, case name, full text
   See also: Supreme Court News [current cases]

Landmark Cases [free]
Text of opinions and resources to support the teaching of landmark Supreme Court cases.

Legal Information Institute [Cornell]     top
     All opinions issued since May 1990
     600 historic decisions from prior years

Supreme Court Opinions Archive, 1992-current date [GPO Access]

Supreme Court Opinions and Orders from the 1992-1993 session through the 1999-2000 session in WordPerfect 5.1, ASCII and Adobe Acrobat Portable Document (PDF) format.

Supreme Court Decisions (1937-1975 only) [GPO Access]    top
     Finding aid to the official version of United States Reports
     Opinions 1937-1975
     Searchable by citation, case name, full text.

CNN.com Supreme Court Archive

Current news about the Supreme Court with a synopsis of each case currently or about to be considered [current cases].

CALIFORNIA  

• Court Reporters
• Digests
• Indexes
• Depublished Cases

CALIFORNIA COURT REPORTERS     top

California Reports
1st Series (1852-1934)  REFERENCE KFC45 .A21 CATALOG RECORD
2nd Series  (1935-1970) REFERENCE KFC45 .A22 CATALOG RECORD
3rd Series  (1970-1992) REFERENCE KFC45 .A23 CATALOG RECORD
4th Series  (1992-current date) REFERENCE KFC45 .A24 CATALOG RECORD

West's California Reporter
1st Series  (1960-1992) REFERENCE KFC47 .C31 CATALOG RECORD
2nd Series  (1991-current date) REFERENCE KFC47 .C32 CATALOG RECORD

CALIFORNIA—DIGESTS     top

West's California Digest
1st Series (1850-1981) REFERENCE KFC57 .W467 CATALOG RECORD
2nd Series  (1981-current date) REFERENCE KFC57 .W47 CATALOG RECORD

Pollak Library Research Guide: Using West's Digest to Find Cases by Subject / by SusanTschabrun

CALIFORNIA—INDEXES    top

Shepard's Acts and Cases by Popular Name
REFERENCE  KF90 .S52 1999 PTS. 1-3 CATALOG RECORD
Indexes the more important federal and state laws and court cases by their popular names.

Shepard's California Citations: Cases
REFERENCE KFC39 .S54c 1999 Vol. 1-14 CATALOG RECORD

DEPUBLISHED CALIFORNIA SUPREME COURT CASES    top
Depublished opinions can no longer be cited but their conclusion remains intact as far as the case's parties are concerned.

The following indicate changes in the status of recent California Supreme Court cases. Prior case history, depublication, review and other information affecting citability are noted.

West's California Reporter Second Series - Advance Sheets
REFERENCE KFC47 .C32 CATALOG RECORD
(These are the weekly pamphlets shelved after the bound volumes of West's California Reporter Second Series)
Go to page SC-1. This is titled "Cases Accepted by Supreme Court" or NEWS RELEASE. Unpublished cases are noted in the descriptions of specific cases.
NOTE: Not every issue will have cases that were depublished so it may be necessary to check more than one issue.

California Subsequent History Table - LATEST
REFERENCE KFC47.2 C3  2002 CATALOG RECORD 
This is shelved following the weekly pamphlets of West's California Reporter Second Series.
This also notes changes in the status of opinions.

For an explanation of depublication and for the titles of sources for finding depublished cases, see UCLA Law Library's research guide Depublication of California Court of Appeals Decisions.

To simply identify a depublished opinion, use LexisNexis Academic:

Click on LEGAL tab

Click on FEDERAL & STATE CASES

Sources: CA Federal & State Cases Combined

Search terms: depublished or depublication

Change date as appropriate

Show: EXPANDED LIST to see occurrences of search term in records.