Virginia Verdicts is a University of Richmond Law Library project that brings together resources related to decisions of the Supreme Court of Virginia. It provides links to opinions, court filings, and case annotations from publicly accessible sources, including law review articles.
Launching in Spring 2026, the project begins with a review of data from every decision the court has ever issued, with library staff, law students, and other contributors publishing materials as they are completed. The site does not host the court’s opinions itself, but instead connects users to freely available decisions from sources such as CourtListener and the Supreme Court of Virginia.
To get the project started, we hired a programmer to leverage the CourtListener API to find records for opinions and orders from the Supreme Court of Virginia. We decided we wanted everything. Run by the Free Law Project, their collection has probably one of the largest and most complete FREE collections of United States caselaw online. We are not replicating their search tools or collection of opinions. On their site, you can already search a collection of more than 22,000 decisions from the Supreme Court of Virginia. Instead, we have curated data elements from these cases, and we’re publishing links and case information in Virginia Verdicts.
As our project continues, we’ll provide updates on milestones and our overall progress. As we prepare to launch the project, we’ve start with more than 22,000 draft entries in our website that we’re reviewing for accuracy and usefulness.
