By default, articles from all journals will be shown. You can limit a particular search to articles from a single journal. Your choices are all journals or one at a time. You cannot select multiple journals at once. But you can always search for articles in another journal after you have viewed a list of articles from your original journal selection.

You can select the years you want to search by holding down the <Ctrl> key and clicking the desired years.

For best results, type a distinctive word or, if needed, a phrase, in the title box. If you specifiy an "exact" match, you may receive fewer results or in some cases no results, since article titles are short strings of text. Do not use quotes around your phrase.

Case Name and Citation Generally

When searching for cases by case name and/or citation, the word(s) you put in the box will retrieve cases with case names or citations containing those word(s) exactly as you typed them (including spacing, symbols, numbers) somewhere within the case name or citation. This is not a "Boolean" search. It is string matching within specified data fields. You may enter partial words or common citation elements.

For best results, type a unique word in either or both boxes. You may also type in an exact phrase if you wish. Do not use quotes around your phrase.

If you search in the case name for:	You receive all cases containing:
Wal-Mart	Wal-Mart anywhere in the case name (as plaintiff or defendant)
State	State anywhere in the case name
v. Allina	Allina as a defendant

If you search in the case citation for:	You receive all cases decided by the:
U.S.	U.S. Supreme Court
Minn.	Minnesota Supreme Court, Minnesota Court of Appeals, and/or District of Minnesota
Minn. Ct. App.	Minnesota Court of Appeals
8th Cir.	8th Circuit Court of Appeals
F.3d	All federal circuit courts of appeal

Note: While the Index's contents are limited to articles published in Minnesota legal periodicals, the subject matter of those articles may be on any subject. Because free access to any organized body of legal periodical literature is virtually unknown on the Web, except here, we invite you to use the Index as a general reference, especially on federal law and general subjects, while recognizing its limitations for use beyond Minnesota's borders.

Since 1984, the Minnesota State Law Library has prepared and published the Minnesota Legal Periodical Index.
This enhanced web-powered version has been developed and is published through the collaborative efforts
of Pritchard Law Webs, publisher of LawMoose, and the Minnesota State Law Library.