Supreme Court Slip Opinions

planned Judicial · Tier 1 · HTML index · Supreme Court of the United States

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What this source is

The Supreme Court of the United States is the highest federal court; it does not publish through govinfo's USCOURTS collection. Its site posts slip opinions and order lists as PDFs on per-term HTML index pages, with opinions concentrated in the October-June term and each opinion led by an official syllabus.

Identity and registry record

Registry id

scotus-slip-opinions

Agency / parent organization

Supreme Court of the United States

Branch

judicial

Type

HTML index

Status

planned

Tier

1

URL (home)

https://www.supremecourt.gov/ (opens in a new tab)

URL (index)

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/slipopinions.aspx (opens in a new tab)

Registered

2026-07-26

Registry notes

First planned non-govinfo primary source, admitted deliberately per GUIDE §3. Slip-opinion index is per-term; the stable .aspx alias should resolve to the current term (verify at activation). Probed 2026-07-26: index reachable (HTTP 200), no RSS/Atom feed found or autodiscovered — HTML index diffing required. Probed 2026-07-31 (from the operator machine, outside the server's daily budget): reachable, HTTP 200, robots allows, but no machine-readable feed is advertised — ingestion waits on an html-index adapter, not on the publisher. Phase 5, 2026-07-31: the html-index adapter now exists and was run against this source's captured index bytes. 67 opinions parse cleanly from the slip-opinion table, none inside the 7-day window (the Court was in summer recess). Note this is judicial record, not an agency announcement: activating it under the AGENCYPR collection would subject opinions to the agency dating rule and executive-branch tagging, so it needs its own adapter COLLECTION first, the way roll-call votes got VOTES. Activation awaits the operator's polling-cadence decision (the agency class holds 500 requests a day).

How we ingest it

Channel

HTML index

Method

Would parse the current term's slip-opinion HTML index and fetch opinion PDFs, drafting syllabus-first (GUIDE §3 phase J2).

Request budget

the agency class: at most 1,500 requests per day shared across every agency web source, counted from the fetch log (failed requests count too)

Politeness

robots.txt is honored as observed — including each host's crawl-delay, exactly — and every request identifies itself as fapd/0.1 (Free Agentic Publication Digester; +https://fapd.info/bot.html; contact: hustleyourcity@gmail.com); a refusal is recorded, never evaded

Capture and hash

captured raw content is hashed (SHA-256) into the day's committed provenance manifest, hash-chained day to day (PROVENANCE.md)

Ingestion health

Not ingested: the registry status of this source is planned.

Ingestion statistics

These figures describe this project's ingestion of this source — items we recorded and requests we made — and nothing else. They are not a measurement of the publisher.

Not ingested: the registry status of this source is planned. Ingestion statistics are measured for active sources only.

All time

Last 30 days, day by day

No requests and no items were recorded in the last 30 days, so there is nothing to chart.