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A service created by Patrick Wiseman - original was retired 3/19/2015 - copied here for posterity's sake...Revision: 20030107

Meta-Index for U.S. Legal Research

• This page illustrates the use of searchable legal indexes on the World Wide Web. Only specifically legal indexes in the U.S. are included. Please note that many of the search tools here have additional search options available and that to derive full benefit from them you should visit the original sites directly.
• This page simply links to search tools at other sites. The search results returned from each site vary in quality depending on the search tool in use.
• Try Google for a generic search.
• If you are aware of searchable legal indexes which have not been included, or have other comments, and especially if you discover that one of the links is broken, please send email to Patrick Wiseman (pwiseman@gsu.edu).
• Please do not makeyour own local copy of this page, unless you agree to make no changes tothepage, and you agree to subscribe to the emailalert (by sending email to metaindex@gsulaw.gsu.edu) and to replace the page whenever it isupdated. This license is effective with the version of theMetaIndex released on January 30, 1997. (Revision: 970130.x and later) The revised license (requiring subscription for email alert) is effectivewith the version released on February 8, 1999 (Revision: 19990208.x andlater)
• This effort was inspired by CUI's Meta-Index.

Use of this index: Each search tool starts with a "default"entry as an example. If you want to see the kind of information returned by eachtool, simply select the Search button. If you have a specific search in mind,enter it in the space provided, and then select the Search button. Selectingthe Default button will return the search entry to its default. For moreinformation about each search tool, select its link. All default searches in the "Judicial Opinions" sectionwere successfully completed on 03/16/2002, unless otherwise noted. A few,apparently broken, search tools have been temporarily removed.

• U.S. SupremeCourt Opinions from FindLaw

  FindLaw's searchable database of Supreme Court decisions since1937 (U.S. Supreme Court Decisions: US Reports 300-, 1937-).Browsable by year and US Reports volume number and searchable bycitation, case title and full text.

  Browsing

  • U.S. Supreme Court Decisions: byvolume, byyear

  Citation Search

  U.S.
  Title Search
  Full-Text Search
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• U.S. Supreme Courtopinions from Cornell's Legal Information Institute.

  This is the combined search for all current and historic decisions, which willtake you to a page with many more options.

• FederalCircuit Opinions (1995-08/2001), from EmoryUniversity School of Law. Later Federal Circuit Opinions are available at the Georgetown University Law Center andat the Federal Circuit's ownsite. Neither of the latter is usefully searchable.

• 1stCircuit Opinions (1995-07/2001), from Emory University School of Law.

• 1stCircuit Opinions, from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the FirstCircuit.
  

• 2nd CircuitOpinions, from Touro Law Center (visit thissite at your own risk!).

• 3rdCircuit Opinions, from VillanovaUniversity School of Law. The search searches the Villanova Law School website, and so returns more than just opinions of the 3rd Circuit. (Including "3d" as a search term apparently works to exclude irrelevant hits.)

• 4th Circuit Opinions, from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. The court's website offers a number of search options; this example is of a command-based query (which itself has many more options).
  

• 4th Circuit Opinions (1995-07/2001), from Emory University School of Law.

• 5th Circuit Opinions, from the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. There are other search options available at the court's website; this is an example of a command-based query (which itself has more options).

• 6th Circuit Opinions, from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.
  

• 6th Circuit Opinions (1995-06/1999), from Emory University School of Law.

• 7th CircuitOpinions, from Chicago-Kent College ofLaw. Advanced search options are available.

• 8th Circuit Opinions, from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit.

• 9th Circuit Opinions, from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

• 10th Circuit Opinions before October 1, 1997, from Emory University School of Law.

• 10th CircuitOpinions after October 1, 1997, from Washburn University School of Law.

  Advanced search options are available.

• 11th Circuit Opinions, from Emory University School of Law.

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• Search for bills and legislative history in the 108th Congress, from THOMAS: Legislative Information on the Internet
  • Full text search of bills:
    

    Bill number:
    
  • Full text search of the Congressional Record:
    

  Other search options are available.

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• The Code of Federal Regulations sponsored by the Office of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration. Also visit e-CFR, the beta site for an electronic version of CFR, updated daily.

  Other search options are available.

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• Findlaw, an index to many legal sources.

  This resource will find links to primary legal sources, government resources, World Wide Web sites, publications, law school course outlines, software, mailing lists, Usenet discussion groups, and related FindLaw pages. The example search is of "Legal Websites." Visit the site directly for many more options.

• Law Reviews from FindLaw.

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