Cases from 1893 to the present.

Historic decisions before 1990; all cases from May 1990 to now.

1937 to 1975 -- old FLITE ("Federal Legal Information Through Electronics") database, opinions in all capital letters.

Currently offers Top 1,000 cases free online. These are cited most often by the U.S. Supreme Court. The offering and the working URL change often without notice.

topic index, full-text search Powerful and comprehensive Internet legal resources, including cases, codes, services, and search features. FindLaw Index is a clickable and searchable topic index similar to the Yahoo index. For effective searches use the Search Help page. Site also links to FindLaw Cyberspace Law Center, FindLaw Law and Economics and the Stanford Copyright and Fair Use Site.

FindLaw LawCrawler A search engine powered by Alta Vista, but with a law emphasis. LawCrawler offers options such as searching throughout the world and individual countries as well as individual states in the United States.

Full-text searchable copies of the United States Code and the Code of Federal Regulations. Searchable documents from states and territories, laws of other nations, treaties and international law. Pennsylvania links.

Villanova University School of Law; Villanova, Pa. Locates federal government Web sites and federal and state court sites, court rules, municipal codes and special topics, such as tax law.

Cornell Law School; Cornell, N.Y. Features decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court, both recent decisions and a growing database of historic decisions. Includes hypertext version of the full U.S. Code, links to U.S. Courts of Appeals decisions, links to other legal resources elsewhere on the Internet. Includes search feature. Caution: Frequently an opinion is divided into parts with various justices joining in different parts. Part numbers appear to be missing from U.S. Supreme Court decisions on this site.

Maintained by Indiana University School of Law, Bloomington This library is hosted by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), an international organization that exists "to realize the full potential of the Web."

Nolo.com began as Nolo Press, a publisher of legal self-help books. The company seems to have adapted well to the Web and continues its tradition of "Law for all." The site also offers a legal dictionary, an ask-the-expert feature and a section of lawyer jokes.

CCC is a not-for-profit organization created at the suggestion of Congress to help organizations comply with U.S. copyright law. Includes reference material and links to other copyright information.

InfoSynthesis Inc. The site structure, navigation and URL change often. A small portion of the material is still available online for free. Currently, the 1,000 cases most often cited by the U.S. Supreme Court itself are indexed and available online at no charge.

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