Enhancements added to the Supreme Court’s Opinions & Announcements page include the ability to search by WebCite number.

Enhancements added to the Supreme Court’s Opinions & Announcements page include the ability to search by WebCite number.

The Ohio Supreme Court today unveiled an easier to use Opinions & Announcements web page with greater search capability.

Website users search the Opinions & Announcements page for Supreme Court, Court of Claims, and appeals court opinions as well as Supreme Court motion and procedural rulings, case announcements, and administrative actions.

With the enhancements, users will be able to search for specific topics or issues such as mandamus actions or attorney discipline matters or expedited election cases. Other new features will enable users to search court decisions by county, case number, and author. Many of these categories were available for display by columns on the old Opinions & Announcements page, but users could not search for them and filter out other information.

Attorneys may find useful the added ability to search a Supreme Court opinion by the citation, which encompasses the number of the bound volume containing the published opinion and its page number in the bound volume.

In addition, searching by the designated Supreme Court WebCite number is now more convenient. Users simply plug in the year and the WebCite number – on either side of the word “Ohio” – and click search. Different from the case number assigned by the clerk’s office, the reporter’s office assigns each opinion, case announcement, or administrative action with a unique WebCite number to differentiate them from all others.

To access the Opinions & Announcements page, click on the Opinions & Announcements button on the right-hand side of the Supreme Court home page at www.sc.ohio.gov.