Law and Legal Studies

Find state cases and decisions

Westlaw Campus Research This link opens in a new window
- This link opens in a new window
Click on the "State Materials" tab, choose the state you are researching, and the level of court. Alternatively, you can search all states at once by changing the selection on the right side of the search bar to "All States". Cases can be searched by citation, party name, full text, etc.
Available on campus to all, or off-campus to UMass Amherst students, staff and faculty with an UMass Amherst IT NetID (user name) and password.

Social Law Library This link opens in a new window
- This link opens in a new window
This resource includes Massachusetts cases from the various courts as well as administrative decisions from government tribunals, boards, agencies, and commissions.
Available on campus to all, or off-campus to UMass Amherst students, staff and faculty with an UMass Amherst IT NetID (user name) and password.

Massachusetts Trial Court Electronic Case Access
Search for dockets of the Boston Municipal Court, District Court, Land Court, Probate and Family Court, Housing Court, and Superior Court.
Massachusetts Appellate Courts
This resources allows researchers to search for case and docket information for actions taken in the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, and the Appeals Court.
Lawpipe
Free access to case briefs (summaries) of notable cases in federal and state courts, on a variety of legal topics.
Caselaw Access Project (CAP)
The Caselaw Access Project is an initiative to make United States case law available in a human-readable and machine-readable format to facilitate research and analysis. Includes published case law from all states and territories from 1658-2018.