Landmark Supreme Court Case Websites


Milestone cases in Supreme Court history
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0101289.html

Landmark Supreme Court Cases (Teacher resources)
http://www.landmarkcases.org/

The 1000 cases most cited by the Court itself
http://www.usscplus.com/topk/

Searchable database of Supreme Court decisions
http://www.findlaw.com/casecode/supreme.html

The Oyez project: Searchable database of important court cases in American history
http://www.oyez.org/oyez/frontpage

The Supreme Court of the United States
http://www.supremecourtus.gov/

Contains information on the Supreme Court, including biographies of the justices, the role of the court, and information on current court cases. Not a source of historical court cases, but this site could be useful for background information on the judiciary.

The Supreme Court collection from the Legal Information Institute
http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/

From this link you can access historical court cases by topic. You can click on the word 'search' to access links to court cases in alphabetical order or using key words.

Supreme Court Cases
http://www.mury.k12.ut.us/mhs/apus/handouts/supremecourtcases.htm

This site was developed to help high school students review their AP history material.

Historic Supreme Court cases
http://www.socialstudieshelp.com/CourtCases.htm

Annotated version of the U.S. Constitution
http://www.findlaw.com/casecode/constitution/

By clicking on a particular article or amendment, you can see what important court cases have arisen from that section.