Guides: Wisconsin Resources: Cases & Courts

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WI Cases on Westlaw Supreme Court of the Territory of Wisconsin: 1839 - 1847; Supreme Court: begins with 1849; Court of Appeals: begins with 1978.
WI Cases on Lexis Circuit Court of Wisconsin; WI Court of Appeals Cases from 1978; WI Supreme Court Cases from 1839.
WI Cases on Bloomberg Law Supreme Court of Wisconsin 1839 to Current; Court of Appeals 1978 to Current.
Wisconsin Supreme Court Opinions, Oral Arguments & Briefs (Wis. Ct. Sys.)
Court of Appeals Opinions, Oral Arguments & Briefs (Wis. Ct. Sys.)
Access to the Public Records of the Wisconsin Circuit Courts (Wis. Ct. Sys.)

Appellate Court briefs filed after July 1, 2009 are available online through Wisconsin State Law Library.
Briefs and appendices from cases 173 Wis.2d (November 1992) through 317 Wis.2d (June 2009) are available online through Univ. of Wisconsin Law Library.

Briefs and appendices for WI Supreme Court (starting with 1839) and WI Court of Appeals (starting with 1978) in print are held by the Wisconsin State Law Library.

Some state court dockets may be found in:
- Westlaw: Dockets: See Coverage Status by Court or Dockets Index to determine coverage for Georgetown Law accounts. See Dockets and Court Wire to determine which court materials are covered by the two Westlaw services. Georgetown Law does not have access to Court Wire, but does to Court Wire Alert Archive.
- Lexis: Dockets.
- Bloomberg Law Docket Search: See Dockets Coverages & Outages for coverage. Docket coverage does not mean, however, that all filings within the coverage dates are held by Bloomberg Law. Also, see our Law Library's FAQ on fees and Bloomberg Law's Docket Search.
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.

Some Briefs and Trial Court Documents may be available on Westlaw.
CourtLink and Briefs, Pleadings and Motions may be found on Lexis.
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.