UCF Research Guides: Legal Research: U.S. Supreme Court

U.S. Supreme Court

Guide to the U.S. Supreme Court
Call Number: Reference KF 8742 .W567 2004
- Origins and Development of the Court
- The Court and the Federal System
- The Court and the Individual
- Pressures on the Court
- The Court at Work
- Members of the Court
How to Research the Supreme Court
Call Number: Reference KF 8741 .A1 M36 1992
Facts about the Supreme Court of the United States
Call Number: Reference KF 8742 .P32 1996
Encyclopedia of Supreme Court Quotations
Call Number: Reference KF 8742 .A35 E529 2000
The Justices of the United States Supreme Court: Their Lives & Major Opinions
Call Number: Reference KF 8744 .F75 1995

Supreme Court Decisions

Online version (1754-2004) (Library of Congress courtesy of William S. Hein & Co.)
Online version (1754+)
Online version (1937-1975)

Supreme Court Nominations

The Supreme Court Database provides data about decisions from 1946 to the present

identification variables (e.g., citations and docket numbers);
background variables (e.g., how the Court took jurisdiction, origin and source of the case, the reason the Court agreed to decide it);
chronological variables (e.g., the date of decision, term of Court, natural court);
substantive variables (e.g., legal provisions, issues, direction of decision);
outcome variables (e.g., disposition of the case, winning party, formal alteration of precedent, declaration of unconstitutionality); and
voting and opinion variables (e.g., how the individual justices voted, their opinions and interagreements).