Contents of this brief guide include major sources of law and legal information in Missouri, as well as general information about state and local government.
Supreme Court of Missouri Historical Records (Mo. State Archives) provides an index and abstract of the criminal and civil cases adjudicated in the territorial Superior Court and state Supreme Court of Missouri up to 1868, and a partial listing of cases to 1889.
Try searching for dockets on the court's web site. The National Center for State Courts offers judicial branch links for each state, focusing on the administrative office of the courts, the court of last resort, any intermediate appellate courts, and each trial court level.
To locate state court materials not available within Westlaw, Lexis or Bloomberg Law, see Dockets & Court Documents page in our Briefs, Oral Arguments and Other Court Documents Research Guide.
Some state appellate courts may make recordings of oral arguments and hearings available on their web sites.
The Law Library's ILL Services, a library-to-library resource sharing service, does not order court materials from a court's clerk. Please contact the court directly for copies.