Research Guides: Connecticut Law: Judicial

Case Law

Connecticut Supreme Court

Connecticut Reports
Call Number: KFC3645 .A2
Decisions of the CT Supreme Court, from 1814 to the present.
Day's Reports
Call Number: KFC3645 .A19 1802 & online
Cases from 1802 to 1813.
Root's Reports
Call Number: KFC3647 .A19 1789 & online
Cases from 1789 to 1798
Kirby's Reports
Call Number: KFC3647 .A19 1785c & online
Cases from 1785 to 1789

Connecticut Appellate Court (created in 1983)

Connecticut Appellate Reports
Decisions of the CT Appellate Court, from 1983 to the present.

Connecticut Superior Court (Trial Court)

Connecticut Supplement
Selected decisions of the CT Superior Court, from 1935 to present.
Connecticut Law Reporter
Call Number: KFC3651 .C57
Selected decisions, from 1990 to present. Each weekly issue includes a topical index, with cumulative indexes and tables of cases issued monthly.
Connecticut Superior Court Reports
Call Number: KFC3651 .C6
Selected decisions, from 1986 to 1994. Each weekly issue includes a topic index and indexes by case name, judge, statute, and Practice Book Rule, with a cumulative index issued quarterly.
Connecticut Opinions
Call Number: KFC3651 .C62
Formerly CT Superior Court Reports. Summaries of selected decisions, from 1995 to 2008.
Connecticut Law Tribune
Summaries of selected opinions.

Connecticut Superior Court Opinions on Lexis
Selected from 1935. Login required.
Connecticut Superior Court Opinions on Westlaw
Selected from 1785 to the present from Superior Court and earlier trial courts. Login required.

Official Practice Book

Connecticut Practice Book
This official state publication includes the Superior Court rules, Rules of Appellate Procedure, Rules of Professional Conduct, and Code of Judicial Conduct.

Annotated Practice Book

West's Connecticut digest
Call Number: KFC3657 .W53
This set can be used to locate case law from CT state and federal courts, from 1764 to present.
Gray's Connecticut Digest
Call Number: KFC3657 .G73 1925
Covers CT case law from 1785 to 1923.
Phillip's Connecticut Digest
Covers CT case law from 1785 to 1943.

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