Find Case Law - CJS 387 - Cybersecurity Law - Library Guides at University of Dayton

Court Opinion Selection

Your term paper will be centered around a recent court opinion that pertains to a significant cyber law issue. In addition to the cases identified in your course textbook, there are many places to find cases and court opinions. Those listed below provide a starting point for identifying cases.

Google Scholar - Case Law
note that you can search by topic, case name, or citation. For broader topic searches, try the advanced search option to limit date and/or court.
The tutorial below is from legal reference specialists at the Law Library of Congress.

CourtListener
CourtListener is a free legal research website containing millions of legal opinions from federal and state courts. In September 2024, it also incorporated all of the information from Harvard Law School's Caselaw Access Project, which includes all official, book-published state and federal United States case law — every volume or case designated as an official report of decisions by a court within the United States
Justia
Justia provides a searchable and browsable database of all US Supreme Court decisions since the 1790s, as well as links to related sources.

APA citation issues specific for your assignment

Purdue OWL guide to citing legal references in APA Style

APA Guide to Citing ChatGPT (and other generative AI)
Includes information on citation guidelines for ChatGPT and, by extension, other generative AI models.

OpenAI. (2023). ChatGPT (Mar 14 version) [Large language model]. https://chat.openai.com/chat

Parenthetical citation: (OpenAI, 2023)
Narrative citation: OpenAI (2023)