US SUPREME AND FEDERAL APPELLATE COURT CASE REPORTS

AltLaw provides the first free, full-text searchable database of Supreme Court and Federal Appellate case reports. It is a resource for attorneys, legal scholars, and the general public. As of late August 2007, there are over 170,000 cases in the database. Coverage, for most Circuits, is limited to about the last 10 to 15 years. As of yet, no state law or district court cases. The site included full text searching of the last decade or so of federal appellate and Supreme Court opinions, and advanced search options (proximity searching, Boolean, concentration, wildcards, etc.). Note: the site is still in beta.

AltLaw is a joint project of Columbia Law School’s Program on Law and Technology and the Silicon Flatirons Program at the University of Colorado Law School.

URL: http://www.altlaw.org/