I plan to provide links to three different sources for cases:
1. Cases that are publicly available online, to everyone. These links are shown in the standard color used to identify links--on most browsers blue of about this color. Most of them are from Findlaw, which provides free access to almost all Supreme Court cases, and some other cases.2. The Westlaw database, available to people who either have a Westlaw password or are willing to pay for access with a credit card. Westlaw links are in this color.
3. The Lexis database, available to people who have a Lexis password. Lexis links are in this color. At the moment, there aren't any, because I haven't yet figured out how to produce them, but I plan to.
And let me take this opportunity to express my gratitude to West for producing and making available the "West Intranet Tookit," which automates the job of creating links to cases in their database. I would also like to thank those of my colleagues, most notably Margaret Brinig and the people responsible for maintaining the web pages of working papers from the Olin programs of the University of Chicago and Harvard, for making so much of their material available online.
I have been unable to find any online source for British cases, with the exception of very recent ones. For the moment, at least, readers interested in reading Fletcher v. Ryland, or other classic cases of the English common law, will have to go to the library.