What is United States Reports?
[[Image:Unitedstatesreports.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Volumes of the ''United States Reports'' on the shelf at a [[law library]]]] '''United States Reports''' are the official record of all the [[lawsuit|cases]] that the [[United States Supreme Court]] has heard. ==Contents== The United States Reports include many types of information, like: * The Court's decisions and orders on each case ** This includes [[majority opinion]]s, [[concurring opinion]]s, and [[dissenting opinion]]s * Lists of every case the Court decides ==Citation== In the United States, when lawyers want to talk or write about a Supreme Court decision, they [[wikt:cite|cite]] the ''United States Reports''. For example, the case ''Brown, et al., v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas'', is cited this way: :''[[Brown v. Board of Education|Brown v. Bd. of Educ.]]'', 347 U.S. 483 (1954). This tells the lawyer that the decision of the Court in the case entitled ''Brown v. Board of Education'' (as properly [[abbreviation|abbreviated]]), decided in 1954, can be found in volume 347 of the United States Reports, starting on page 483. {{stub}} [[Category:United States Supreme Court cases|*]]