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A Division of the Library

Judicial Opinions

Selected opinions of the federal and state courts of record.

§ I

Introduction

Scope of the Division

Judicial Opinions

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The Division of Judicial Opinions catalogues decisions of the United States Supreme Court, the federal courts of appeals, and the state courts of last resort. Selection is curated; the catalogue is not exhaustive.

§ II

What Belongs Here

The materials catalogued in this division.

A division collects materials of a single kind. The following are the working classes of record.

  1. 01

    Opinions of the Supreme Court of the United States

  2. 02

    Opinions of the United States Courts of Appeals of doctrinal importance

  3. 03

    Opinions of state supreme courts construing the constitutions and codes of record

§ III

Research Notes

How the division is read.

Notes for the reader on how the materials are catalogued and consulted.

  1. 01

    Opinions are read with the procedural posture that produced them.

  2. 02

    Subsequent history is noted so that the present authority of a case may be located.

§ IV

Featured Authorities

A working selection from the division.

The following are representative entries. They have been catalogued and reviewed; the longer record opens by catalogue search.

  1. 5 U.S. (1 Cranch) 137 (1803)

    Marbury v. Madison

    Supreme Court of the United States · Opinion of the Court · 1803

    Judicial review of acts of Congress.

    Source · United States Reports

    See also: us-const-art-iii-sec-2

    V. Judicial OpinionsCurrent

  3. 556 U.S. 662 (2009)

    Ashcroft v. Iqbal

    Supreme Court of the United States · Opinion of the Court · 2009

    Pleading standard under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 8.

    Source · United States Reports

    See also: frcp-12b6

    V. Judicial OpinionsCurrent

§ V

Related Collections

Subjects that draw upon this division.

The following Research Collections gather authority from this division alongside materials from elsewhere in the catalogue.

Collection

Property

Estates in land, recorded instruments, and the chain of title.

Draws from · Statutes · Judicial Opinions · Treatises

Collection

Civil Procedure

The Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and the controlling decisions that construe them.

Draws from · Court Rules · Judicial Opinions · Practice Manuals

Collection

Constitutional Law

The Constitution of the United States and the opinions of the Court that construe it.

Draws from · Constitutions · Judicial Opinions · Historical Documents

Collection

Legal History

The antecedent instruments and the long development of the common law and equity.

Draws from · Historical Documents · Judicial Opinions

§ VII

Related Schools

Departments that read this division.

The Schools below draw their reading from this division. Each enters the Library by way of its own bibliography.

§ VIII

Bibliographic Note

How this division is cited.

Opinions are cited to the reporter of record, with parallel citations where customary.

Marbury v. Madison, 5 U.S. (1 Cranch) 137 (1803)
Specimen form · Division of Judicial Opinions

§ IX

Within the Library

Divisions that read alongside this one.

Authority does not respect divisional boundaries. The following divisions are consulted together with this one.

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§ X

Authority Discovery

Browse this division by metadata.

These indexes are alternative metadata views of the same canonical authority records. They are not separate collections or archives.

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