Cornell University Law School Legal Information Institute

http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/index.html

The Legal Information Institute's website is popular because it is so easy to use. It offers the full text of all Supreme Court decisions from May 1990 to the present. Decisions are posted the day the Court releases them and can be accessed by using the name of the first party, the name of the second party, keyword, date, or other variables.

The site also provides nearly 600 historic Supreme Court decisions dating to the Court's beginnings and concerning such topics as abortion, administrative law, copyright, patent law, school prayer, and trademarks. These cases can be accessed by topic, party name, or opinion author. The site also carries the full text of the Supreme Court rules, the Court calendar for the current term, the schedule of oral arguments, biographical data about former and sitting justices, and a glossary of legal terms.

FindLaw

http://findlaw.com/casecode/supreme.html

FindLaw, a legal publisher, provides the full text of all Supreme Court decisions from 1893 to the present. Its database can be browsed by year and U.S. Reports volume number, as well as by citation, case title, and keywords. The decisions are in HTML, and many contain hyperlinks to citations from previous decisions. The website also offers the full text of the U.S. Constitution, with annotations by the Congressional Research Service.

Oyez: U.S. Supreme Court Media

http://www.oyez.org

Oyez, operated by Northwestern University, offers recordings of oral arguments from approximately 1,000 Supreme Court cases. Its database can be searched by title, citation, subject, and date. For each case, the site also provides text highlighting the facts of the case, the constitutional question involved, and the Court's conclusion. The recordings are digitized from tapes held by the National Archives. Listening to the cases requires RealAudio. Oyez provides a link for free download of the software.