Cases are published in large sets of books called reporters. For certain (usually large) jurisdictions, multiple competing reporters cover each court. For example, California cases are published in both Lexis' official California Reports (Cal.) and California Appellate Reports (Cal. App.) and in West's unofficial California Reporter (Cal. Rptr.) and Pacific Reporter (P.). For a smaller jurisdiction such as Kentucky, its cases are covered in only a single reporter, West's South Western Reporter (S.W.).
Bluebook T1 tells you which reporters to cite for each federal and state court. Generally, you are instructed to cite to West's National Reporter System, West's comprehensive system of reporters covering all federal and state courts. However, there are exceptions for a handful of courts including, most significantly, the U.S. Supreme Court.
For U.S. Supreme Court cases, Bluebook T1.1 tells you to collect cases from the official United States Reports (U.S.), which is available in print and in PDF scans on HeinOnline.
Our law library has print holdings of the United States Reports through the year 2010 (stack 207). It will usually be easiest to locate these opinions by using Heinonline. To locate the full-text of a case on Heinonline, put the case citation in the main search box, and then choose the option to search for "citation." The example below shows how to search for a U.S. Supreme Court case with a citation of: 564 U.S. 462:
The law library no longer has subscriptions to the West print court reporters, with the exception of Kentucky cases (we subscribe to Kentucky Decisions, an off-print of the South Western Reporter, located in stack 203). We do have a full-run of West's North Eastern Reporter, up through the year 2009 (in stack 208).
Otherwise, access to court decisions from the West Court Reporters will be through Westlaw. Westlaw does make many, but not all, of its cases available in PDF format. Below is an example of a case from the Pacific Reporter that has a link to the PDF image of the case as printed in the court reporter:
