As you know, spading is how Law Review staff members edit the text of the papers and footnotes to check for grammar, spelling and citation errors. It also involves checking the original source to verify the authority. This section provides techniques for finding PDFs of footnote materials.
US Supreme Court: Slip opinions and official bound volumes in PDF
Westlaw: Reported cases published in West reporters; look for the PDF symbol
Bloomberg Law: For filings from federal and select state dockets
Hein Online: Scanned PDF images in its Law Journal Library
GovInfo US government publications in PDF, including legislative history documents, the US Code, and the Federal Register
Hein Online: Scanned PDF images in its US Code, US Congressional Documents, US Statutes at Large libraries, and CFR and Federal Register libraries
ProQuest Legislative Insight and ProQuest Congressional: Legislative history materials in PDF
ProQuest Newspapers: Some newspapers available as scanned PDFs
HathiTrust Digital Library of digitized books, manuscripts, and historical documents.
The Making of Modern Law databases have digitized historical treatises and primary materials, including foreign materials.
Many of Emory's ebook databases have books and treatises in PDF or other image formats. Find them by searching titles in discoverE.