The O'Neill Library has a specialty digest, West's Education Law Digest , O'Neill Library Reference KF 4110 .A2 W472, that contains only education law cases. Students working on education law papers will find it easier to use this digest to find references to cases. Cases referenced in the education law digest can be found in West's Education Law Reporter , O'Neill Library Reference KF 4110 .A2 W47 as well as in the federal and state reporters in the Law Library. A59 S62, is useful for students working on health care law issues. The Law Library has most major United States federal and state case reporters.
Most cases found in a law library are the written opinions of appeals court judges.
Trial court transcripts, the record of what was said at trial, may be very interesting, but will not bind future courts. Transcripts are not automatically printed from trials, but requested and usually purchased by the parties if they want to appeal the trial court's findings. Trial court decisions, also called verdicts, determine the outcome of a case for the two parties, but also have limited predictive value, and therefore are not used as much in legal research. However, the Law Library has a small collection of transcripts from famous historical trials and sample trials that are used in teaching trial technique. Law Microforms Index Area KF 220 .C64x.