Oxford Guide to United States Supreme Court Decisions This link opens in a new windowEntries on major Supreme Court cases written by eminent legal scholars. Each entry provides the United States Reports citation, the date the case was argued and decided, the vote of the Justices, who wrote the opinion for the Court, who concurred, who dissented, an informative account of the particulars of the case, the legal and social background, the reasoning behind the Courts decision, and the impact on American society.