Missouri in the United States

Legal Materials

Links to Missouri government agencies, statutes, regulations, cases, etc. are posted byFindLaw and WashLaw. Primary legal materials are also available from Lexis, Westlawand LOIS. Subscription services Versuslaw Fastcase have cases back to 1950; Google Scholar has cases back to 1950 for free. Supreme and appellate court cases are published in West’s South Western Reporter.

You can look up the status of pending bills on the Missouri General Assembly website. For questions about Missouri legislation, call the Legislative Library at 573-751-4633 or send email to leg.library@lr.mo.gov.

Many areas of Missouri law are discussed in Missouri Practice, which is available in print and on Westlaw (MOPRAC).

The Missouri Attorney General posts AG Opinions back to 1968. Lexis and Westlawhave 1977-present. Older AG Opinions can be ordered from the AG’s office by calling 573-751-3321 (they will send a PDF by email).

For information on Missouri legal materials, see the Introduction to Legal Materialsposted by the Missouri Bar and the list of Missouri Practice Materials posted by the Washington University Law Library. For questions about Missouri legal materials, copies and/or inter-library loan, try calling the St. Louis University Law Library (314-977-2755) or the Washington University Law Library (314-935-6450).

Note: We linked the resources to archive.org in an effort to decrease the number of broken links cited.

For more U.S. state primary law resources, see:

• U.S. State Law: Constitutional
• U.S. State Cases
• U.S. State Law: Codes
• U.S. State Law: Statutes
• U.S. State Legislative: Bills
• U.S. State Law: Executive & Administrative
• U.S. State Law: Municipal

Topics Covered by the Missouri Legal Encyclopedia

Note: More detailed information about this State is provided in the Missouri jurisdictional legal Encyclopedia, which tie together Missouri statutory and case law.

Topics include:

• Missouri Statutes
• MO Cases & Case Law
• Missouri Legal Websites
• MO State Government Info
• Missouri Counties
• Missouri Cities
• Missouri Legislation
• MO Court Reporters/Depositions
• Missouri Legal Forms
• Missouri Courts
• Missouri Local Court Rules
• MO State Bar/Legal Associations
• Missouri Law Enforcement
• Missouri Media Sources

Resources

See Also

• Case Pulls
• State Legal Ethics
• Attorney General Opinions
• Legal Treatises
• Shepardizing (legal research)
• U.S. State Government Agencies
• U.S. State Law Sources