Researching and Locating Supreme Court Materials

Supreme Court Records and Briefs provides nearly 11 million pages of records and briefs from over 150,000 cases brought before the U.S. Supreme Court in the period 1832-1978. Users may search the full text of more than 350,000 documents, including transcripts.
(Note: Supreme Court Records and Briefs is available to all Stanford University users.)

Select oral argument transcripts from 1933 through the present term are available on Supreme Court Insight.
(Note: Supreme Court Insight is available to all Stanford University users.)

Beginning with the October 2006 Term, the Court has made the transcripts of oral arguments available free to the public on its website, www.supremecourt.gov, on the same day an argument is heard by the Supreme Court. (Heritage Reporting Corporation has provided transcripts for the Court beginning in October Term 2017; prior to that Term, Alderson Reporting Corporation provided the transcripts.) Same-day transcripts are considered official but subject to final review. These and earlier Terms’ transcripts are permanently archived on the Supreme Court website. Transcripts for oral arguments prior to October Term 2000 have been scanned from the Supreme Court Library collection.

Under "Cases," transcript-synchronized and searchable audio is available from 1955 to the present on Oyez.

Oral argument transcripts from October 1, 1979 to the present are available on Lexis Advance.
In the search box, type in: United States Supreme Court Transcripts
Then select it as a source.
(Note: Access to Lexis+ is limited to Stanford Law School users by personal username and password.)

Oral argument transcripts from 1990-1991 term to the present are available on Westlaw.
Browse > All Content > Trial Transcripts & Oral Arguments > U.S. Supreme Court
(Note: Access to Westlaw Precision is limited to Stanford Law School users by personal username and password.)

CD set containing select oral arguments

Contains oral argument transcripts from select constitutional law cases

Set of audio cassettes containing select oral arguments prior to 1955

Set of audio cassettes containing select oral arguments made before the Supreme Court in sixteen First Amendment cases

Set of audio cassettes containing select oral arguments on schools and students

Set of audio cassettes containing select oral arguments on abortion

Contains transcriptions of select conference notes by justices on nearly 300 decisions; available in print or as an e-book