History 152: Finding Court Cases and Transcripts

Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe - Federal and State Cases
Use search forms to find full text of court cases by keyword, parties involved, citation, judge or counsel.

Oyez Supreme Court Media
"The Oyez Project is a multimedia archive devoted to the Supreme Court of the United States and its work. It aims to be a complete and authoritative source for all audio recorded in the Court since the installation of a recording system in October 1955....For selected cases argued before 1979, and for nearly all cases argued after 1979, unofficial versions of the transcripts are provided along with the audio when available." To date, they have loaded the audio transcripts back to 1984.

Supreme Court of the United States
Official website of the Supreme Court. Includes oral argument transcripts from 2000-present and opinions from 2004-present.

Digital History: Landmark Court Decisions
Provides links to scholarly projects devoted to digitizing primary sources and trial transcripts of famous court cases (e.g. the Susan B. Anthony trial). Also provides annotations and links to the full text of decisions of historic Supreme Court cases.

For in-depth explanations for finding and interpreting case law, see Legal Research: How to Find and Understand the Law (Sawyer Reference: KF 240 .E35 2001).