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State & Local Resources

Multi-state sources

Although it varies by state, most states have current codes and administrative codes on the web, and sometimes recent appellate court opinions.

1. LexisOne
   State Supreme Court and Court of Appeals decisions. Search the most recent 10 years of decisions using Lexis searching, fields, or citation.
   
   
2. Justia
   State constitutions, codes, and links to other state resources.
   
   
3. The Public Library of Law
   Claims to be the largest, free, online U.S. caselaw database. It includes all Supreme Court cases, U.S. Courts of Appeals cases since 1950 and U.S. state case law from 1997 for all 50 states. It also links to the codes and statutes, constitutions and regulations for the Federal Government and all 50 states.
   
   
4. PreCYdent
   A new legal search engine that contains cases and statutes that are in the public domain. Includes more than 900,000 U.S. Supreme Court cases (since 1759), U.S. Courts of Appeals cases (from 1950) and States Court cases.  It features a Google-like search box that ranks results by authority.
   
   
5. State constitutions and statutes
   Cornell LII
   Links to state statutes, as well as links to uniform and model codes.
   
   Topical index to state statutes.
   
   
6. State Legislative History Research Guides On The Web
   Indiana University School of Law Library Bloomington
   Legislative history sources for almost all of the states.
   See also Compiling State Legislative Histories.
   
   
7. Ready Reference
   Links to useful state law and government pages.
   
   
8. Municipal Code Corporation
   Codes of local ordinances of counties and cities.
   Links by state from a map of the United States.
   
   
9. BRB's Free Resource Center
   A comprehensive and searchable list of free public record sites along with additional tools to locate sources for civil records, criminal records, driving records, real estate records, public record vendors, record retrievers, legislation and more.
     
10. FindLaw
    Links by state to primary materials and to other legal resources.

Search tip

To locate any United States, state home page, please use the following form:

www.state.gov/

For example, to locate Georgia's state home page, the URL would look like this:

www.georgia.gov/