Researching the Supreme Court of the United States

Abstract

This article reveals an annotated list of resources pertaining to the Supreme Court of the United States (“Supreme Court”). Specifically, this article attempts to compile a list of readily available or unique resources that one may find particularly useful when looking for commonly asked questions about the Supreme Court's members, work, and history. The authors divide the resources into the following broad categories: (a) the Supreme Court Justices, (b) the Supreme Court and Its Procedures, (c) Supreme Court Opinions, and (d) Supreme Court Architecture and History. The annotations include books, periodicals, indexes, online databases, and other publications that one may find especially helpful when answering questions relating to the Supreme Court. In compiling the resources for this article, the authors made a special effort to draw attention to readily accessible or unique materials for answering commonly asked questions about the Supreme Court. While several of the annotated entries contain reference to online resources, the authors sought to include only official or otherwise well-established Internet sites and databases.