Judge Records

The federal bench, measured by what its opinions did — not just where its judges served.

What a judge record holds

A career timeline — every court served, commission to departure, laid out year by year.
Biography and appointments — education, prior employment, and the full appointment history, built from Federal Judicial Center records.
Notable quotes — the passages from opinions the judge wrote that later decisions quote, most-quoted first, each verified word-for-word against the source. How passages are verified →
Practice areas shaped — the areas of law where the judge authored a landmark case, with those cases linked.
Opinions authored — the judge's written work, connected to every case page in the corpus.

William H. Rehnquist →Associate then Chief Justice — three decades on the Court in one timeline, with the opinions and quotes to match.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. →A century on, later courts still quote him — see which of his sentences survived.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg →From the D.C. Circuit to the Supreme Court — the full appointment history and the passages her opinions are cited for.
Learned Hand →Proof the record isn't just about the Supreme Court: a circuit judge whose formulas later courts quote constantly.
Richard A. Posner →Among the most-quoted judges in the corpus — a Seventh Circuit record measured in later-court reliance.

The full directory covers the federal judiciary from 1789 forward: all judges A–Z, by court, by era, or by appointing president.

Case-by-case analysis → — Citation profile, citations over time, the appellate journey, and how later courts treated the case.
Most-quoted passages → — The exact sentences later courts rely on, verified word-for-word against the source opinion.
Circuit splits → — Where the federal courts of appeals openly disagree, organized by issue.
Case status → — Whether a case is still good law — and exactly how we compute it.
Citation checker → — Paste a citation or a quote; we verify it against the record. Free.
Compare laws by state → — One legal subject at a time — every state’s statute beside the federal law.