Supreme Court cases

A student from Art Svenson's GOVT 402, Equal Protection class came to the ref. desk asking to see a number of Supreme Court cases. She had a list of volume and page numbers but her syllabus did not appear to have the series title. Svenson had told her it was on the 4th floor and she had written "US Reports" in her own handwriting. We do indeed have United States Reports upstairs, which "contain the fourth and final generation of the Court's opinions. " Unfortunately the catalog record(s) may be misleading as they do not reflect these multiple volumes.

Furthermore, if a student comes in knowing the case name, but not the United States Reports volume/page number, you may use United States Supreme Court Decisions which is located behind the Reference desk. Essentially, you'll find the case name and the citation below it. In the example below, you will find the following case in United States Reports, vol. 347, beginning p. 483

E.g. Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas
347 US 483

In case you were curious, Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas is actually listed more than once in the c2001 reference book United States Supreme Court Decisions--once for a case decided in 1954 (the landmark case) and another time for a case decided in 1955. Unless you or the student knows the date/year of interest, there is no way (I could find) to readily distinguish which citation referred to the landmark case. I hope this was helpful.