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Alabama Appellate opinions are available online through Alalinc, the State Law Library's Legal Information Network. Alalinc is a subscription Internet service.  The cost is $200 per year.
 

Alaska Alaska Recent Supreme Court Decisions.  Slip Opinions   Opinions are removed from this site once they are printed in the Pacific Reporter, the designated official reporter of Alaskan appellate decisions
 

Arizona Arizona Supreme Court Opinions.  1998 to present.  Only the bound volumes of Arizona Reports contain the final, official report of cases argued and determined in the Supreme Court and Court of Appeals of the State of Arizona.
 

Arkansas Arkansas Judiciary  Opinions of the Supreme Court and  Court of Appeals Opinions.  
 

California California Supreme Court and Courts of Appeal Searchable Opinions  - 1950 to present.    Published Opinions     Unpublished Opinions
 

Colorado Colorado Supreme Court Search for Opinions 1998 - present.
 

Connecticut State of Connecticut Judicial Branch Supreme Court and Appellate Court Opinions  The Connecticut Judicial Branch website provides public access to Supreme Court and Appellate Court opinions prior to their publication in the Connecticut Law Journal.  2000 - present.
 

Delaware Delaware State Courts - All Courts Opinions and Orders
 

District of Columbia D.C. Court of Appeals - Opinions of the D.C. Court of Appeals may be either published or unpublished. Signed opinions and per curiam opinions are published.  1998 to present.
 

Florida Florida Supreme Court Opinions 1999 - 2005.   2005 opinions are not final until any timely filed motions for rehearing are considered and disposed of by the court.  These opinions are also subject to formal revision before publication in the Southern Reporter, 2nd Series.
 

Georgia Supreme Court of Georgia Opinions and Summaries for 2005 and 2006 
 

Hawaii Hawaii State Judiciay Opinions and Orders - 1998 - present.  This site includes (1) court opinions designated for publication, (2) memorandum opinions, (3) summary disposition orders, and (4) other final orders that dispose of appeals or original proceedings decided by the Hawai'i Supreme Court and the Hawai'i Intermediate Court of Appeals (ICA).
 

Idaho Idaho State Judiciary - Supreme Court and Court of Appeals Criminal and Civil Opinions.  These opinions are subject to formal revision before publication in the preliminary print of the Pacific Reporter.
 

Illinois Illinois Supreme Court and Appellate Court Opinions from 1996 to present.  You may subscribe to receive e-mail notification when new Opinions are posted to the Illinois Courts website.
 

Indiana Indiana Appellate Opinions - Opinions issued by the Indiana Appellate Courts are considered current until one week after their online publication date. Access archived opinions to the right.
 

Iowa Iowa judicial Branch Opinions.  The opinions posted on this site are slip opinions only and are not to be considered the final decisions of the court. The official published opinions of the Iowa Supreme Court are those published in the North Western Reporter published by West Publishing Company.
 

Kansas Kansas Supreme Court/Kansas Court of Appeals Opinions. This Web page provides a gateway to the published opinions of the Kansas Supreme Court and the Kansas Court of Appeals. 1996 to present.
 

Kentucky Kentucky Supreme Court and Court of Appeals  Searchable Opinions  1999 - present.  This site will give you immediate access to opinions, in a PDF format, as they are rendered.  When finality is entered in a case, the final opinion will replace the rendered copy on the site.  Finality and publication status will be shown on the first page of the opinion.
 

Louisiana Louisiana Supreme Court.
 

Maine Maine Supreme Court Opinions.  Although opinions posted on this site are public documents and may be utilized and cited in this form, they are subject to revision and correction.  1997 - present. 
 

Maryland Maryland Appellate Court Opinions.  1995 - present.  Reported opinions appearing on this website may not be the final, official version of the text of Appellate Court opinions/orders. Only the bound volumes of the Maryland Reports and Maryland Appellate Reports contain the final, official texts of the reported opinions of the Maryland Court of Appeals and the Maryland Court of Special Appeal. 
 

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Office of Reporter of Decisions.  The published opinions of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court and the Appeals Court are available in slip opinion form within 30 minutes of release and, while the bound volumes of the official reports contain the authoritative final report of the cases, the online Opinion Archive provides the published opinions of the two appellate courts from 2001-Present in a fully searchable format that includes all substantive changes contained in the advance sheets and the bound volumes.
 

Michigan

Michigan Supreme Court and Court of Appeals.  Opinion searches include:

  • Published opinions released since January 2001.
  • Court of Appeals unpublished opinions released since July 1996.
  • Court of Appeals orders affecting opinions released since January 2005.
 

Minnesota Opinions of the Minnesota Appellate Courts Archives
  • Supreme Court opinions and orders (May 2, 1996 - present)
  • Court of Appeals published opinions (May 7, 1996 - present)
  • Court of Appeals unpublished and order opinions (May 11, 1996 - present)
 

Mississippi Opinions from the Mississippi Supreme Court and Court of Appeals are searchable online from 1996 to present.
 

Missouri Opinions from the Missouri Supreme Court and Courts of Appeals are available online and searchable.  Slip opinions are subject to revision and may not reflect the final opinion adopted by the Court.
 

Montana Montana Supreme Court opinions are seachable through the Montana State Law Library.
 

Nebraska Slip opinions issued in the last 90 days are searchable online.  The only official version of the opinions of the Nebraska Supreme Court and the Nebraska Court of Appeals appears in the bound volumes of the Nebraska Reports and the Nebraska Appellate Reports.
 

Nevada Nevada Supreme Court Advance Opinions.  Opinions are posted for 90 days.  Disclaimer: The information is prepared as an informational service only and should not be relied upon as an official record of action.
 

New Hampshire New Hampshire Supreme Court Slip Opinions from 1995 -  present.  These opinions are subject to motions for rehearing as well as formal revision before publication in the New Hampshire Reports.
 

New Jersey New Jersey Supreme Court and Appellate Court Opinions issued during the current week.  Rutgers Camden Law School hosts a searchable database of New Jersey Supreme Court and Appellate Court reported opinions dating from March 1994 to the present.  "Unpublished" decisions are different than those for those designated as "published". The status of each decision is noted at the top of each Appellate Division document.
 

New Mexico New Mexico offers:   (1999 - present)
 

New York New York State Court of Appeals latest court Decisions  The Court's decisions are available the day of their release to the general public.  For older slip opinions no longer available on the site, see the Law Reporting Bureau's site.
 

North Carolina Supreme Court and Court of Appeals Opinions searchable from 1996 to present. All opinions are subject to modification and technical correction prior to official publication in the North Carolina Reports and North Carolina Court of Appeals Reports.
 

North Dakota North Dakota Supreme Court searchable Opinions from 1972 - present.
 

Ohio Supreme Court of Ohio Reporter of Decisions  - Opinions  and Announcements searchable database 1995 - present.
Disclaimer:  Some opinion is subject to further editing. They may be  posted to the website of the Supreme Court of Ohio as a manuscript document in the interest of disseminating it to the public on an expedited basis. Documents are replaced with the final version when the final version becomes available.
 

Oklahoma The QuickCase Retrieval page allows users of The Oklahoma Supreme Court Network to obtain:
  • Published cases 
  • Summaries of published cases
  • Citationizer analysis (cases citing the requested case) of published cases
  • Statutes
  • Parallel citation information
 

Oregon Oregon Judicial Department Appellate Court Opinions.   Supreme Court  Slip Opinions 1998 - present.  Court of Appeals Slip Opinions 1998 - present.  The slip opinions published at this website are subject to copy correction prior to preliminary publication in the Advance Sheets and final publication in the bound volumes of the Oregon Reports.
 

Pennsylvania Opinions are available for the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, the Superior Court, and the Commonwealth Court.
 

Rhode Island

Judiciary of Rhode Island published Opinions  1999 - present.

 

South Carolina Opinions and orders of the Supreme Court of South Carolina and the South Carolina Court of Appeals..  Published opinions and orders are available from 1997 - present for the Supreme Court and from 1999 - present for the Court of Appeals.
 

South Dakota South Dakota Unified Judicial System Opinions.  1996 to present.
 

Tennessee Appellate Courts of Tennessee Opinions for viewing and downloading,   1995 to present,
 

Texas Supreme Court of Texas Opinion Search
 

Utah

Utah State Courts  - Supreme Court Opinions  Court of Appeals Published Decisions  Court of Appeals Unpublished Decisions 

Disclaimer:  Opinions are subject to revision before final publication in the Pacific Reporter.

 

Vermont Vermont Supreme Court.  Web site offers description of duties of the Supreme court.
 

Virginia Supreme Court of Virginia - Opinions 
Court of Appeals
published Opinions
Court of Appeals unpublished Opinions
 

Washington Washington State Court Opinions.  Supreme Court and Court of Appeals Slip Opinions are Maintained on the Washington State Courts' Website for 90 days.
 

West Virginia Opinions of the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia.  Slip options are searchable from 1991 to present.
 

Wisconsin Wisconsin Supreme Court Opinions and Court of Appeals Opinions searchable from 1991 - present.
 

Wyoming Wyoming State Supreme Court published Opinions for prior two months.  Opinions available from 1870 through the Wyoming State Law Library
 

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