To use this search page, you can look for a single word. Or, use the tips below to refine your search to find more specific results. In all these examples please note that the searches are case insensitive, so searching forSupreme Court is the same as searching forSUPREME COURT.
- Look for two or more words at once by just separating them by a space or using the AND operator.
Example - typeSupreme AND Court or simply Supreme Court to find documents that have both the word supreme and the word court anywhere. - Look for a phrase.
Example: type"Supreme Court"in quotes to find the exact phraseSupreme Court. The search is not case-sensitive. - Look for words that are close to each other by using the NEAR operator instead of the AND operator. When you use NEAR, the closer together the words are, the higher the rank of the page, so the higher it appears in the list of search results.
Example - typeRehearing NEAR denied to match documents where the wordrehearing anddenied are within 50 words of each other. - Look for synonyms or similar words by using the OR operator. Note that if you don't use the OR operator and search using multiple words, a boolean AND operator is assumed.
Example - typeOrderOR Journalto find documents containing the wordOrderor the wordJournal, but not necessarily both. - Limit your search by using the NOT operator to exclude words.
Example - typesurfing NOT Internet to find all instances ofsurfing, as long asInternet is not in the document. - Use double quotes if you want to use AND, OR, NOT, or NEAR literally.
Example - type"Search will not find" to find documents with the phraseSearch will not find. Without the double quotes, this query would use the NOT operator to exclude the wordfind. - Look for words that begin with the same letters by using a single asterick (*).
Example - typecert* to findcertify,certiorari, certification and so on.
More advanced searches
You can combine many of the above tips to create more specific searches such as:
- Using multiple operators: Use parentheses around each combination of NEAR and combine them into a more complicated search such as:(Supreme NEAR Court) AND (Capital NEAR Case)would return items where the wordSupreme is near the wordCourt and whereCapital is also near the wordCase. This would differ fromSupreme NEAR Court NEAR Capital NEAR Case because that would require all four words to be in close proximity to each other.