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Case law, also known as precedent or common law, is the body of prior judicial decisions that guide judges deciding issues before them. Depending on the relationship between the deciding court and the precedent, case law may be binding or merely persuasive.
Case law is law based on judicial decisions. This guide cites resources for locating and identifying judicial decisions from the U.S. courts using primary and secondary sources of case law.
Explore FindLaw’s free collection of state and federal court opinions, state laws, and the United States Code. For more information about the legal concepts addressed by these cases and statutes, visit FindLaw's Learn About the Law.
CourtListener is a free legal research website containing millions of legal opinions from federal and state courts. With CourtListener, lawyers, journalists, academics, and the public can research an important case, stay up to date with case law as it develops, or do deep analysis using our raw data.
Find and read thousands of cases from various jurisdictions and topics on Casetext , a leading platform for legal research.
Master the basics of legal research with a three-step process: Record the facts of your case, gather primary and secondary law, and check for good law.
A research guide to help you locate free case law on the internet using Google Scholar, CourtListener, Caselaw Access Project, FindLaw, and Justia.
A good case law research tool enables a lawyer to quickly and easily build upon discoveries—once the lawyer finds a pertinent case, it should be intuitive for them to springboard into other documents.
Generally, there are two types of case law research: Determining the case law that is binding or persuasive regarding a particular issue. Gathering and analyzing the relevant case law.
Searchable database of decisions from federal and state courts. Links to legal opinions and law review articles. Access to all Supreme Court cases, Courts of Appeals cases beginning with 1950, district court cases beginning with 2004, some state case law. Allows browsing by type of lawsuit.