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Search and View Full Text of Supreme Court Decisions
Issued between 1937 and 1975
Federal Legal Information Through Electronics
Contains 7,407 Decisions from volumes 300 through 422 of US
Reports.
This system contains the full text of 7,407 U.S. Supreme Court Decisions
from 1937 to 1975. Decisions are available as ASCII text files that can
be read on your browser's screen or saved to your hard drive and accessed
by using most word processor programs. Most Decisions are very large and
may take a while to download if you have a slow internet connection. After
conducting a search, the search results screen lists the size of the Decision
in bytes so that you can esimate download times.
Currently available search strategies are simple. We expect that most
users will know the case name of the decision they need and will most
likely use the Case Name search option. Otherwise, you may use the full
text search option, but beware that the size of the database and the number
of words (14.5 million) may require that conduct a number of searches
to find what you are looking for.
You may currently use two different methods to search and retrieve decisions:
FedWorld / FLITE U S Supreme Court Decision Full Text Search
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FedWorld / FLITE U.S. Supreme Court Decision Case Name Search
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Hints and Suggestions
- It's ok to leave boxes blank - roe [blank box]
V. wade [blank box] will work fine.
- Stop words like and, or, of, the, etc, are ignored. You
can enter them in a box with another word, but the search engine
will not try to find them.
- Really long case names: If you need more then two words for
a party, enter ADJ between words with a single box (be
sure that ADJ is in caps).
- Party names of cases sometimes get reversed during the appeals
process. If your search does not work, please try reversing the
party names!
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