Searchable Indexes for Legal Research
Use of this index: Each search tool starts with a "default" entry
as an example. If you want to see the kind of information returned by each
tool, simply select the Search button. If you have a specific search in
mind, enter it in the space provided, and then select the Search button.
Selecting the Default button will return the search entry to its default.
For more information about each search tool, select its link. All default
searches were successfully completed on 4/19/95.
Legal Links
Judicial Opinions
U.S. Supreme Court
Syllabi from Cornell's Legal
Information Institute, with links to full opinions.
You can search by keyword(s) and use Boolean connectors (and,
or, not).
Fourth Circuit Case Search
Go to Fourth Circuit Cases
Home Page
Sixth Circuit Case Search
Go to Sixth Circuit Cases
Home Page
Eleventh Circuit Case Search
Go to Eleventh Circuit
Cases Home Page
Legislation
Other search options
are available.
liBill number:
Full text search of the Congressional Record:
Other search options
are available.
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Other Legal Sources
The Legal Domain Network maintains archives of many law-related USENET
newsgroups, to which anyone in the world can and does contribute. While
the index is searchable, expect to wait a while for a response. And remember
the adage, "Garbage in, garbage out!" As illustrated by the default example,
one can search for the names of contributors as well as by subject.
As illustrated by the default example, this search tool assumes an
'or' search unless you specify 'and'.
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People in Law
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Generic Links
The default example for most of these generic links is 'law'.
Lists
This is not a full text search. Only the newsgroup names, archive
names, subjects, and keywords are searched.
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Spiders, Robots, etc.
Yahoo Search
David Filo and Jerry Yang at Stanford have been offering their directory
of Internet sites for over a year now. Yahoo offers listings of the most
popular pages, the ability to search the directory of services, and (if
you're up for adventure) a way to visit any Net page at random.
The Open Text Web Index --
Quick Search
This search will return literally thousands of links in
a matter of seconds!
The Open Text Web Index --
Compound Search
Instructions
for searching are available.
Lycos
Other search options are
available.
Note that the search term has a period appended to get an exact
match -- 'law', without a period, retrieves many irrelevant documents --
try
it!
Search the Harvest
collection of Web Home Pages.
This is an over-simplified search of the Harvest database. To
get the full flavor, you should use the query
form.
Other Internet Search Engines
