Supreme Court Justice 2
In General.?The opinions of the Supreme Court of the United States are published officially in a set of case books called the United States Reports. See 28 U.S.C. ?411. At the beginning of October Term 2009, the U.S. Reports consisted of 548 bound volumes and soft-cover "preliminary prints" of an additional 4 volumes; a final 5 volumes' worth of opinions also existed in individual "slip opinion" form. Volumes are added to the set at the rate of three to five per Term; they are generally between 800 and 1,200 pages long.