Federal Government Resources Research Guide: Judicial Branch

Guide includes: Indexes, Catalogs, and Databases; Frequently Requested Full-Text Documents; Statistics; and other websites.

Free legal research platform featuring community-sourced annotations and links to secondary sources.

A free legal research website containing millions of legal opinions from federal and state courts. Part of the Free Law Project.

Free case law search platform including visualization tools.

Unequivocal articulations of legal principles and summaries of judicial opinions.

Find opinions by court, reporter, or state.

Previews of upcoming arguments before the Supreme Court. Bulletin content is available by email subscription for free.

Sign up for free to receive daily & weekly opinion summaries for all federal appellate and all state supreme courts.

This blog publishes a wealth of information documenting the work of the U.S. Supreme Court, including breaking news, a linked docket, statistics, and analysis of pending petitions and merits cases.

Almost comprehensive full-text archive of legal documents from the U.S. Supreme Court, covering approximately 150,000 cases.

Oral argument docket, calendar, argument transcripts and audio, recent decisions, rules, and more.

Current and historic opinions, plus links to other useful resources! Search for decisions by keyword, party name, or citation. Browse for decisions by topic, author or party name.

Search for decisions by citation, title, or keyword. Browse for decisions by year or citation.

Links to the official websites of the U.S. Supreme Court, the 13 Circuit Courts of Appeals, all U.S. District Courts, Bankruptcy Courts, and U.S. Probation and Pretrial Servcies Offices.

MA, ME, NH, PR, RI

CT, NY, VT

Learn about various federal courts

DE, NJ, PA (& Virgin Islands)

MD, NC, SC, VA, WV

LA, MS, TX

KY, OH, MI, TN

IL, IN, WI

AR, IA, MN, MO, ND, NE, SD

AK, AZ, CA, HI, ID, MT, NV, OR, WA (also Guam & N. Mariana Is.)

CO, KS, OK, NM, UT, WY

AL, FL, GA

Hears appeals from the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.

Nationwide jurisdiction in a variety of subject areas. including international trade, government contracts, patents, certain money claims against the United States government, federal personnel, veterans' benefits, and public safety officers' benefits claims.

Browse opinions of the Appellate, District, and Bankruptcy Courts as well as the U.S. Court of International Trade.

A source for court rules, legal forms, and dockets, as well as original articles on a wide range of law and legal technology issues.

A multimedia archive devoted to the U.S. Supreme Court, including extensive information about the Court's cases (including recordings of oral arguments) and Justices. Published by the Chicago-Kent College of Law.

Merit and amicus briefs for the present as well as immediate past and future, US Supreme Court term. From the American Bar Association.

This blog publishes a wealth of information documenting the work of the U.S. Supreme Court, including breaking news, a linked docket, statistics, and analysis of pending petitions and merits cases.

The education and research agency for the federal courts.

An independent agency in the judicial branch of government.