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Locating 50-State Surveys

This guide is intended to help you identify sources for precompiled 50-state surveys.

50-State Surveys

Westlaw, available to Stanford Law School users by personal name and password, has 50 state surveys available on a variety of statutory and regulatory topics.  

To access the surveys, type "50 state surveys" in the search box.  Then select "50 State Surveys" under "Content Pages."  If you know whether your content is statutory or regulatory you can fine tune your results by selecting 50 State Statutory Surveys or 50 State Regulatory Surveys.

Screenshot of Westlaw search for 50 State Surveys

Next, you can run a search across the filtered secondary sources.

Screenshot of Westlaw Secondary Sources page filtered to 50 State Surveys with "minimum wage" in the search bar.