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How do I locate a U.S. Supreme Court Slip Opinion by case name or number?

Search by Case Number

To search for a slip opinion by case number, open the U.S. Supreme Court Library in HeinOnline and click on the Advanced Search link under the main search bar.

The U.S. Reports Slip Opinion numbers in HeinOnline are all tagged as descriptions, thus allowing us to search across the “description” field for the number.

NOTE: To search across the description field, we must use the advanced search option.

For example, to find 07-290, enter the following:

screenshot of Advanced Search in U.S. Supreme Court Library for slip opinion number

Search by Case Name

Use the Case Name field to search for this case by name:

screenshot of Advanced Search in U.S. Supreme Court Library for case name

In the search results, you’ll see that the second result includes the slip opinion number, differentiating it from both the preliminary print and the official case.

screenshot of search results

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