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If either statutes or decisions could be made private property, it would be in the power of an individual to shut out the light by which we guide our actions.

—Justice McLean, Wheaton v. Peters, 33 U.S. 591, 668 (1834)

WikiProject Law aims to improve Wikisource's collection of law related source texts, including judicial opinions, statutes, and legal scholarship.

Participants

You can join this project by adding your name to the participants list and placing the {{User WikiProject Law}} template on your user page.

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To-do

Identify digital sources for law texts
Improve templates for statutes and judicial opinions
Add and wikify texts
Identify copyright issues for categories of law texts.

Table of U.S. law on Wikisource

Area of law	Index on Wikisource	Source(s)	Notes
Federal
United States Constitution	Constitution of the United States of America
United States Code	United States Code	FDsys (primary) GPO Access	See Wikisource:WikiProject US Code
United States Statutes at Large	United States Statutes at Large
Code of Federal Regulations	Code of Federal Regulations	FDsys (primary) GPO Access
United States Executive Orders	Portal:Executive Orders		See Wikisource:WikiProject United States Executive Orders
Decisions of the United States Supreme Court	United States Reports	Open Jurist, Cornell Legal Information Institute	See Wikisource:WikiProject U.S. Supreme Court cases
Federal Rules	Federal Rules of Civil Procedure Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure Federal Rules of Evidence
Decisions of the Federal Circuit Courts of Appeals	Federal Reporter
Decisions of the Federal District Courts	Federal Supplement
Regional Reporters
Southern Reporter			First and second series. Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi - Supreme Court
Pacific Reporter			First, second, and third series. Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Kansas, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Utah, Washington, Wyoming - Supreme Court
Southwestern Reporter			First, second, and third series. Arkansas, Florida, Kentucky, Tennessee, Texas - Supreme Court
Atlantic Reporter			First and second series. Connecticut, Delaware, D.C., Maine, Maryland, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont - Supreme Court
Southeastern Reporter			First and second series. Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia - Supreme Court
Northeastern Reporter			First and second series. Illinois, Indiana, Massachusetts, New York, Ohio - Supreme Court
Northwestern Reporter			First and second series. Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wisconsin - Supreme Court
State Statute Compilations
Code of Alabama
Alaska Statutes
Arizona Revised Statutes Annotated
Arkansas Code Annotated		Arkansas Code - Free Public Access (LexisNexis)
West's Annotated California Civil Code
West's Annotated California Civil Code
West's Annotated California Code of Civil Procedure
West's Annotated California Business and Professions Code
West's Annotated California Penal Code
West's Annotated California Insurance Code
West's Annotated California Code
Colorado Revised Statutes		Colorado Revise Statutes - Free Public Access (LexisNexis)	"Colorado law recognizes that persons, agencies, or political subdivisions, other than the General Assembly, may seek to publish, reprint, or distribute the statutes of the state of Colorado, in print format, digital format, or both. See § 2-5-118, C.R.S. Any person, agency, or political subdivision seeking to publish, reprint, or distribute the Colorado Revised Statutes by using the statutory database containing the official text of the statutes as prepared by the General Assembly should contact the Office of Legislative Legal Services for further information."^[1]
General Statutes of Connecticut
General Statutes of Connecticut
D.C. Official Code
Florida Statutes
Official Code of Georgia Annotated
Hawaii Revised Statutes
Idaho Code Annotated
Illinois Ompiled Statutes
Indiana Code
Code of Iowa
Kansas Statutes Annotated
Kentucky Revised States Annotated
Louisiana Revised Statutes Annotated
Indiana Code
Main Revised Statutes Annotated
Maryland Code and Court Rules		https://advance.lexis.com/container?config=00JAA1NTM5MzBmZC02MTg2LTQzNmEtYmI5Yy0yZWEwYzA1OGEwNTYKAFBvZENhdGFsb2fdgr2eooaZj7MpSZGOIwWq&&prid=&crid=956de81c-c486-4f9e-802f-49e8e56a1a77
General Laws of Massachusetts
Michigan Compiled Laws
Minnesota Revised Statutes Annotated
Mississippi Revised Statutes Annotated
Montana Revised Statutes Annotated
Nebraska Revised Statutes Annotated
Nevada Revised Statutes Annotated
New Hampshire Revised Statutes Annotated
New Jersey Statutes Annotated	New Jersey Statutes Annotated; New Jersey Rules of Court	Justia, Rutgers School of Law-Camden, Rutgers School of Law-Newark, New Jersey Law Network
New Mexico Statutes Annotated
McKinney's Consoledateed Laws of New York Annotated
General Statutes of North Carolina
North Dakota Century Code		Century Code
Page's Ohio Code Annotated		LAWriter Ohio Laws and Rules
Oklahoma Revised Statutes Annotated
Oregon Revised Statutes
Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes
Rhode Island Revised Statutes Annotated
Code of Laws of South Carolina
Rhode Island Revised Statutes Annotated
South Dakota Codified Laws
Rhode Island Revised Statutes Annotated
Tennessee Code Annotated
Texas Code Annotated
Utah Code Annotated
Vermont Code Annotated
Virginia Code Annotated
Revised Code of Washington
West Virginia
Wisconsin Statutes
Wyoming Code Annotated

Templates

{{WikiProject Law}} — header for talk pages of pages being worked on
Table of citation templates — a complete template of all citation templates used
{{WikiProject USSC}} — header for talk pages of Supreme Court pages being worked on (from Wikisource:WikiProject U.S. Supreme Court cases)
{{USSCcase}} — navigation and info for title page of a U.S. Supreme Court case. See page for usage info (from Wikisource:WikiProject U.S. Supreme Court cases)
- {{USSCcase2}} — Navigation and info for each document of the case. See page for usage info (from Wikisource:WikiProject U.S. Supreme Court cases)
{{Case}} — navigation and info for title page of a non-Supreme Court case. This is the same as USSCcase, except that it does not add any category automatically, so you will have to add your own.
- {{Case2}} — Navigation and info for each document of the case.
{{CaseCaption}} — Creates a caption for the syllabus (from Wikisource:WikiProject U.S. Supreme Court cases)
{{Article}} — Formats and creates span id for each clause in a constitution, treaty, or other legal document (translated from Turkish Wikisource)

License templates

{{PD-EdictGov}} - license for edicts of a government, local or foreign; public domain in the United States.
{{PD-in-USGov}} - license for edicts of the United States federal government; public domain in the U.S.
{{PD-USGov}} - shorter license statement for edicts of the U.S. government

Tools

WIkifyCite Tool - running here, documentation and source here.

Use this tool to turn legal citations into interwiki links.

Related projects on Wikisource

References

↑ LexisNexis Colorado Revised Statutes access page