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The Making of Modern Law: U.S. Supreme Court Records and Brief’s database is comprised of 100,000 court cases, that’s more than 240,000 documents making up more than 11 million pages. The records in this database are official court filings. Some cases consist of a few documents, while others may include dozens of documents. However, this collection does not include the Court’s rulings, opinions or decisions.
The types of records contained include:

• Appellant’s Brief
• Appellee’s Brief
• Appendix
• Application for Review
• Application for Writ
• Brief for the U.S.
• Brief in Opposition
• Brief of Real Party
• Intervener’s Brief
• Joint Appendix
• Jurisdictional Statement
• Letter Brief
• Opposition for Review
• Oral Transcript
• Petition
• Petition for Rehearing
• Petitioner’s Brief
• Petition for Writ of Certiorari
• Relator’s Brief
• Supplement to Petition

Researchers will have access to some of the most-studied and talked-about cases, including:

• “Dred Scott v. Sandford” (1857)
• “Butchers’ Benevolent Association v. Crescent City Livestock Landing and Slaughterhouse Co.” (1873)
• “Plessy v. Ferguson” (1896)
• “Muller v. Oregon” (1908)
• “Schenck v. United States” (1919)
• “National Labor Relations Board v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp.” (1937)
• “Brown v. Board of Education” (1954)
• “Miranda v. Arizona” (1966)
• “New York Times Co. v. United States” (1971)
• “Roe v. Wade” (1973)
• “United States v. Richard M. Nixon” (1974)