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Early American Case Law

Hein’s Early American Case Law is a robust collection containing coverage of historical cases from the late 1700s through the 1920s and spanning nearly 2 million pages.

Federal Cases

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This database includes a collection of cases argued and determined in the Circuit and District Courts of the United States from the earliest times to the beginning of the Federal Reporter, arranged alphabetically by case title and numbered consecutively from books one through 30. The collection has 20,000+ cases from 1789-1880, compiled into 30 books of all lower federal case law. The Index to Books 1-30 cross-references original report citations to federal case numbers.

The Federal Reporter organizes court opinions within each volume by the date of the decision, and includes the full official text of the court's opinion. Only decisions designated by the courts as for publication—those with full precedential value for which citation in court filings is permissible—are included in the Federal Reporter.