Cornell University Legal Information Institute, Supreme Court Collection (visited Dec. 1, 1999) http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/ (summaries available through "LIIBulletin").

Harvard Law Review (Harvard Law Review Association 1887 - present) (November issues).

Legal Times (Legal Times 1982 - present)(continues Legal Times of Washington, 1978-1982) (July and October issues).

National Law Journal (New York Law Publishing Co. 1978 - present) (Julyand October issues).

Preview of United States Supreme Court Cases (Association of American Law Schools and the Joint Committee on Continuing Legal Education of the American Law Institute and the American Bar Association 1973 — present)(publication is irregular; currently issued eight times per year). Supreme Court Debates (Congressional Digest Corporation 1998 - present)(issued monthly).

Supreme Court Opinions, October 19__ Term, Congressional Research Service Reports (issued annually).

Supreme Court Review (Bureau of National Affairs 1981 - present)(issued annually).

The Supreme Court Yearbook (Congressional Quarterly, Inc. 1991 - present) (issued annually).

United States Law Week (Bureau of National Affairs 1933 - present) (continues United States Weekly Law Journal) (fifty looseleaf updates per year).

The Washington Post, The Supreme Court (visited Dec. 1, 1999) http://www. washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/supcourt/supcourt.htm

Many popular and scholarly resources summarize the Supreme Court’s Terms. Although this list is far from comprehensive, each of the resources below regularly offers good overviews and reviews of the Supreme Court’s Terms.

The Legal Information Institute ("LII") of Cornell University has been providing a free current awareness service via e-mail since 1993. [70] This service distributes a synopsis or syllabi of Supreme Court decisions in bulletin format within hours after the information’s release. [71] One can find membership to this e-mail service, a service known as the "LIIBulletin," at the LII site hosted by Cornell University. [72] The advantage of using this service is that it distributes summaries of the opinions to one’s desktop, thus eliminating the process of having to seek out the summaries.

Writers at the Harvard Law Review annually summarize what they consider to be the Term’s leading cases. [73] These summaries appear in the Harvard Law Review’s November issues. [74] The summaries are often complex and they frequently address the Supreme Court’s rationale for its holdings. Thus, these overviews may be most appropriate for a legal scholar seeking to gain perspective on a recent case.

Both the Legal Times and the National Law Journal offer previews and reviews of the Supreme Court’s Term. These Preview and Review pull-out sections are featured in their October and July issues, respectively. The Legal Times "Supreme Court Review" sections typically include one to two page articles on Supreme Court Term’s major cases. In comparison, the National Law Journal "Supreme Court Review" sections contain similar analytical articles, but these sections also include short summaries of all the cases the Supreme Court decided in the preceding Term. [75]

The American Bar Association Division of Public Education produces Preview of United States Supreme Court Cases, which analyzes the cases coming before the Supreme Court in a given Term. [76] The Preview of United States Supreme Court Cases ("the Preview") also summarizes the Supreme Court opinions as the Supreme Court delivers the opinions throughout the Term. [77] The Preview publishes these "case at a glance" summaries in a brief format, and these summaries set out the issues, the facts, the case analysis, and the significance of the case. [78] The synopsis also lists the names and telephone numbers of the attorneys arguing the case and the parties submitting amicus briefs for each side. [79] The Preview is available on Lexis and Westlaw. Using the Lexis software, one can find issues of the Preview from January 1991 to the present in the GENFED library, PRE-VU file. Using the Internet version of Lexis, one can find the Preview in the "PRE-VU" source. On Westlaw, the SCT-PREVIEW database contains issues of the Preview from December 1989 to the present.

Congressional Digest’s Supreme Court Debates began publication in April of 1998. The Supreme Court Debates highlights various cases before the Supreme Court. Each issue outlines a current Supreme Court case by giving excerpts of: the lower court ruling, the briefs on the merits, the amicus briefs, and the oral argument transcripts. The Supreme Court Debates also includes a question-and-answer segment with a review of past Supreme Court cases on the issue. Aside from its detailed coverage of selected cases, the Supreme Court Debates provides monthly summaries of "the status of important cases before the highest tribunal." [80]

Congressional Research Service offers reports summarizing all the Supreme Court cases heard during the Term. [81] The Congressional Research Service publishes the reports in a capsulized format, and the reports usually summarize the Supreme Court’s holding in a paragraph. [82] Copies of the reports beginning with the 1988 Term are available in microformat. [83] Although the Congressional Research Service reports are not currently available online, they are migrating to the Web. At the present time, one can find about ten percent of these reports online. [84] Unfortunately, the Supreme Court reports are not yet among those available. To order copies of the 1996 Term and 1997 Term summaries, see the Pennyhill Press Web site. [85]

Supreme Court Review annually summarizes the preceding Supreme Court Terms in a small booklet published by the editors of United States Law Week. Supreme Court Review is arranged by subject and includes a table of cases for quick reference. [86] This publication would be particularly useful to someone who is researching how a Supreme Court Term affected a particular area of law. [87]

The Supreme Court Yearbook ("Yearbook") is an excellent resource for both a preview of the upcoming Term as well as a review of the Term that has just concluded. Published by Congressional Quarterly, Inc., this annual series gives an overview of the Term. Not only does it summarize the workings of the Supreme Court over the past year, but the Yearbook also provides statistical information on the Justices’ voting patterns. For instance, the 1997/1998 Yearbook includes tables that provide information about Justices in alignment and Justices in dissent. [88]

United States Law Week ("Law Week") is a weekly looseleaf service available from BNA. Throughout the Term, the service provides summaries of recent Supreme Court filings and decisions. Generally, the opinions in Law Week appear approximately a week after the Supreme Court decides the case, making Law Week the fastest print resource for full-text opinions.

The Washington Post Company maintains a Supreme Court Web site that is available from the Washington Post Web page. This site is an excellent resource for current information about the Supreme Court. The site includes The Washington Post’s news coverage of the Supreme Court, the current oral argument calendar, and reviews of the past two Terms. [89] The review sections analyze the past two Terms’ major cases and provide "the full text of each key decision, the [J]ustices' votes and background from The Post's archives." [90]