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From the home page of the Supreme Court Yearbook Online Edition you can perform a Quick Search of the entire series. Quick Search skips the advance search page and immediately performs a search based on the following default criteria:
Use specific words instead of general ones. For example, a search for school desegregation will return fewer and more targeted results than a search for desegregation.
Use the words and, or, and not as search operators. For example, to search for documents containing the word "confirmation" and the word "hearings," type confirmation and hearings in the keyword input box. To search for documents containing either the word "confirmation" or the word "hearings," type confirmation or hearings in the keyword input box.
Use not to narrow your search. If you type ethics not committee in the keyword input box, your search will return only those documents that include the word "ethics" and exclude the word "committee."
Use quotation marks around a phrase to search for an exact match of those words in sequence. For example, to find the phrase "original jurisdiction," type "original jurisdiction" in the keyword input box, including the quotation marks. Without the quotation marks, your search will return documents containing the word "original" and the word "jurisdiction," even if the words are not used together.
Use a wildcard (*). By typing an * (the asterisk symbol) at the beginning or end of a word, you can search for items with multiple prefixes or endings. For example, typing *trust* in the keyword input box will return documents that include the words "trust," "antitrust," "trusts," "antitrusts," and "trustee."
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Term |
Function |
How to Use |
Example |
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AND |
Finds one term and a second term |
Separate the words with a space, or separate with "and" |
original jurisdiction original and jurisdiction |
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" " |
Finds terms in an exact sequence |
Use quotation marks around the sequence |
"original jurisdiction" |
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OR |
Finds one term or another term |
Separate terms with "or" |
House or Senate |
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NOT |
Finds one term but not another |
Separate terms with "not" |
House not Senate |
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* |
Finds any terms containing a specific sequence of letters |
Type the letters, using the asterisk symbol (*) as a wildcard |
*trusts |
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? |
Finds variations of a term |
Replace letters with the ? symbol |
wom?n returns woman, women |
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w/ |
Finds terms that are within a certain number of words of each other |
Place terms in quotations, followed by a "w" and a slash mark (/) and the number of words which can occur between the search terms |
senate w/4 hearings returns Senate Judiciary Committee Hearings |
The advanced search allows you to more specifically define the parameters of your key word search. Advanced Search provides a powerful tool for drilling down to find exactly what you need. To search for a complete phrase, place it in quotes. Use search operators to narrow the search: and, or, not, *, w/#. You can also search across all your CQ Press Electronic Library sites.
"Search All Text" (a selection just below the search box) searches for keywords in the text and title of all documents in the Supreme Court Yearbook series.
"Search Titles Only" can be a quick shortcut for finding keywords in the title of documents. "Include Documents With Limited Access" allows the parameters of your search results to include documents your institution has limited access to. This will add excerpted documents to your search results. "Search Specific Topics" narrows your search to documents falling into one of the eight main categories in the Congress and the Nation Series. Click the radio button "Search Specific Topics" and select the topics you would like to include in your search.
"Include Documents with Limited Access" will populate your search results with document listings your institution may not have access to, but will provide bibliographic information on where you might be able to find this document in print form in your library.
"Search Specific Topics" narrows your search to documents falling into one of the sixteen main categories in the Supreme Court Yearbook series. Click the radio button "Search Specific Topics" and select the topics you would like to include in your search.
"Search Specific Document Types" narrows your search to specific document types. Click the radio button “Search Specific Document Types” and then select the document types you would like to include in your search.
"Search Specific Terms" contains a list of Supreme Court terms that can be selected to focus your search on particular terms of the Supreme Court. Click on the radio button “Search Specific Terms” to activate this feature and then click on the book you wish to search. To select more than one term, hold down the control key while you click on additional terms.
"Event Date" allows users to narrow their search by document date. Selecting an Event Date range will limit your search results to documents with dates that are on, since, between, or before a date(s). Select your dates from the drop down menu. Selecting "Include Documents Without Dates" will expand your search results parameters to include documents that do not have an event date.
Sort Results By presents two options for sorting search results: 1) relevancy based on the number of times a keyword appears and 2) alphabetically by document title.
"Number of results displayed per page" is an option in the Advanced Search that allows you to control the number of documents displayed in your search results. This number can range from 5 to 30, in multiples of five.
From the home page you can browse the Supreme Court Yearbook series by Supreme Court Yearbook editions, topics, case name, tables and figures, and information related to understanding the Court.
Browse Yearbook: By using the Browse Yearbook function, you can search through the Supreme Court Yearbook Online Edition series as you would the print books. After selecting a Yearbook, the Yearbook browse organizes the documents by chapter as the table of contents in the print edition does. Clicking on one of the sections in the table of contents links to a list of documents found in that section of the book.
Browse by Topics: You may also find the Browse by Topics function helpful. Each document is organized in topical categories, which allow you to browse the Supreme Court Yearbook ‘s wide range of documents by the subjects that interest you. Your results will be listed alphabetically by title.
Browse Cases by Name: By using the Browse Cases by Name function, you can search through all of the case summaries in the Yearbook series by looking up the case alphabetically.
Browse Tables and Figures: This browse function allows you to quickly access quick tables and figures that have been collected over the years through the Supreme Court Yearbook series without locating them individually in the document they originally appeared in.
Understanding the Court: This browse is a cumulative list of useful encyclopedia reference materials to help better understand how the Supreme Court works and the justices that have served the Court. These documents are excluded from the chapter browse.
For the most part, the online edition contains the exact same content as the print equivalent. However, the organization of the online edition is slightly different than its print counterpart.
Appendix material that was repeated or updated throughout the series is not included in the Table of Contents browse. Instead, these documents are available from the home of the Supreme Court Yearbook Online Edition in the section labeled “Understanding the Court”.
Subject categories that organized case summaries throughout the print series are largely stable, but there were times when they differed in naming convention from edition to edition. In order to maintain a consistent subject structure for ease of use in browsing the online edition, CQ Press made editorial changes to create a consistent and unified topic structure throughout the series.
Opinion excerpts are not accessible from each Yearbook’s table of contents. Instead, opinion excerpts are accessible as related documents in the “Related Text” section in the left navigation menu of the document window for each case summary with a corresponding opinion excerpt from a Yearbook. You may also link out to the full text of opinions when "Link to full text of opinion" appears as link in the Related Text box in the document window.
Previews of the Term chapters are not included in the online edition since the online edition contains case summaries, analyses of the cases, and discussion of the topics that the preview chapters would have touched upon. Also, beginning with the 2001- 2002 Supreme Court term, the Yearbook was available only as a virtual edition and the preview chapter was dropped from the publication.
Beginning with the 2001- 2002 edition, the Supreme Court Yearbook is only available in electronic format.
Supreme Court Yearbooks are published the November following the conclusion of the Court’s term.
The document ID is a unique code for each document in the Supreme Court Yearbook series. You can use this code in the key word search to locate a specific document.
The document citation lists a citation for the document you have opened in Chicago Style. To see other styles and more citation information visit the How to Cite.
CiteNow! is a feature that generates a citation for a specific document. It can be found in the document navigation bar within any document in the Supreme Court Yearbook series. To create a citation for a document, simply click on the CiteNow! icon located in the left hand menu in the document window. A pop-up window will appear that allows you to choose the citation style that is appropriate for your research. Four citation styles are offered: APA, Chicago, MLA, and Bluebook. Chicago is the default style.
Citation styles for electronic materials are continually evolving. To provide the most up-to-date citation examples, the CQ Press editorial staff consulted the following:
The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation, 19th ed.
The Chicago Manual of Style, 16th ed.
MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, 7th ed.
Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 6th ed.
To better serve our users, citations in the CQ Electronic Library incorporate document ID numbers and full URLs to the documents even where the above style guides do not require that information. This additional information facilitates locating documents in the CQ Press Electronic Library and thereby hews to the spirit of the style guides.
If you already have a document or a citation from the Supreme Court Yearbook series, you may access that document directly. Each document will have a document URL printed at the bottom of the page. Enter the Document URL in the Address line of your web browser to view the document.
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