Supreme Court reporter

The West Publishing Company's unofficial edition of Supreme Court decisions, began publication in 1883, printing decisions of the October 1882 term. Advance sheets are issued semimonthly, with final page‐numbering. Only the bound volume, however, offers star paging to the official reports and parallel citations to both the official reports and to Lawyers' Edition. The text of decisions is the same as in the official edition. Case summaries and headnotes are prepared by West, and the headnotes are classified by West's key‐number system. Through their assigned topics and key numbers, abstracts of the legal points in Supreme Court Reporter decisions appear in the various digests published by West. Both advance sheets and bound volumes contain the usual features of West reporters, including tables of cases, a key‐number digest, and tables of words, phrases, statutes, and rules judicially construed. In addition to advance sheets, West since 1986 has been publishing a temporary “interim edition” of the bound cumulation, in two or three physical volumes, to offset the delay in publication of the final volumes.

— Morris L. Cohen

Since 1883 the West Publishing Company has regularly issued the Supreme Court Reporter, an unofficial record of U.S. Supreme Court decisions. The contents of the decisions in the Supreme Court Reporter are the same as in the official edition, United States Reports, which is issued by the U.S. Government Printing Office. Summaries of all cases are prepared by West. In addition, tables of key words, phrases, and statutes are developed to help readers interpret information in the full-text reports of the Court's opinions.

See also United States Reports