The archive includes Minnesota Supreme Court opinions and orders dating from May 2, 1996, Minnesota Court of Appeals published opinions dating from May 7, 1996, and Minnesota Court of Appeals unpublished and order opinions dating from May 11, 1996. Opinions are organized by release date, docket number, and name of the first party.

Note: The most current week's opinions are available only on the Minnesota Court System web site.

The State Law Library publishes this disclaimer: "Please Note: The slip opinions published at this website are subject to modification or correction by the court. The official opinions of the Minnesota appellate courts are those published by Thomson West in the North Western Reporter or Minnesota Reporter."

Use this page on the Minnesota State Law Library site to find the Northwest Second (N.W.2d) volume and page number assigned by West Group to any recent court opinion you see listed.

Here's a handy little tip, too. Once you have that "official" case citation, for example, 637 N.W.2d 270 is the first one listed on the State Law Library's citation page, you can do all sorts of things with it, resembling what you could do in certain proprietary legal research environments.

First, use that citation to search the State Law Library's Minnesota Appellate Court Opinions collection to find later cases that may cite back to the original case.

Second, navigate over to our Articles area. Select the "Case Finder" from the left menu bar. Then enter the citation you have in the Citation field of the search form.

If you are lucky, you'll find out how your original case has been faring since it was issued. How or whether it has been cited in subsequent opinions can be very important. Articles discussing the case may describe the context of the opinion, the prior law, how the opinion clarifies or complicates the law, and possibly new or unresolved issues or practice tips. You never know what you'll find until you check this subsequent history.

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