New York Official Reports: Publications

Print Publications

Bound Volume subscriptions to the Official Reports include the New York Reports, Appellate Division Reports, and Miscellaneous Reports, as well as Advance Sheets.

Approximately 19 Bound Volumes are issued per year. Cases are released in weekly soft-cover Advance Sheets prior to their inclusion in the Bound Volumes. PDF versions of the Official Reports bound volumes beginning in 1999 are available on this website.

Online Publications

The New York Slip Opinion Service provides access to recently released decisions prior to publication in the Official Reports, together with an electronic citation for each decision. Opinions selected for online publication only are also available.

A section of the New York Slip Opinion Service page

The New York Official Reports Service provides access to the text of all decisions published or abstracted in the Official Reports from 1847 through the latest Advance Sheet.

Section of the New York Official Reports Service website.

The Official Reports are published online by a commercial vendor, currently Thomson Reuters Westlaw.

Section of the Thomson Reuters WestLaw website.

New York Law Reports Style Manual

All opinions published in the Official Reports conform to the New York Law Reports Style Manual, which is prepared by the Law Reporting Bureau and approved by the Court of Appeals. The Style Manual is available in HTML format (view the New York Law Reports Style Manual online) and Adobe PDF format (download the New York Law Reports Style Manual as a PDF); information on the availability of print copies may be obtained from the Law Reporting Bureau by email ([email protected]) or by phone (518-453-6900).

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