Edited compilations of significant oral arguments
- Landmark Briefs and Arguments of the Supreme Court of the United States byCall Number: KF101.8 .K97This 80 volume set covers landmark constitutional law cases from 1793 through 1973. Supplemental volumes are available through the 2013 term. The reader is provided with the circumstances that influence the decisions of the justices and that form the factual foundation of each of the included cases.
- May It Please the Court: The Most Significant Oral Arguments Made Before the Supreme Court Since 1955 byCall Number: KF4748 .M46 1993ISBN: 1565840461Publication Date: 1993Recordings on audiocassette of oral argments.
- Obscenity: The Complete Oral Arguments Before the Supreme Court in the Major Obscenity Cases byCall Number: KF9444.A7 F91ISBN: 0394438868Publication Date: 1970Transcripts of the oral arguments in Roth v. United States, Alberts v. California, Kingsley International Pictures Corp. v. Regents, Manual Enterprises v. Day, Jacobellis v. Ohio, Freedman v. Maryland, and Ginzburg v. United States.
May It Please the Court by Call Number: KF4118 .M39x 2000ISBN: 1565846133Publication Date: 2000May It Please the Court includes both live recordings and transcripts of oral arguments in twenty-three of the most significant cases argued before the Supreme Court in the second half of the twentieth century.
Online collections
- Legal Information Institute Supreme Court CollectionThe Legal Information Institute has a database of selected historic decisions of Supreme Court cases. The collection pre-dates the regular release of Supreme Court decisions to the Internet and is organized by topic, party name, and opinion author.
- The Supreme Court Historical SocietyThe Supreme Court Historical Society identifies significant oral arguments from 1955 until 1993. The cases are organized by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court during the time the case was heard.
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