docketx/court-rules

US Court Rules — federal and state, held word for word

Code & tools: github.com/docketx — legal-scrambler pseudonymises a case file on your own hardware before a frontier model sees it; claude-for-legal is the Claude Code plugin (docketx-open-law) that loads these datasets and checks citations against them.

21,062 court rules across 28 states and the federal courts, in one uniform record. Rules of civil and appellate procedure, evidence, criminal procedure, professional conduct, judicial conduct, general rules and the local rule sets each court publishes for itself.

The text is verbatim. A rule paraphrased is a rule you cannot file against, so every row carries the rule as its court published it, with the URL it came from.

Coverage

jurisdiction	rules	rule sets	sets
federal courts (federal)	595	3	frcp, frap, fre
Alaska (ak)	816	18	civ, app, evcomm, bar …
Alabama (al)	615	12	Alabama Rules of Criminal Procedure, Alabama Rules of Civil Procedure, Alabama Rules of Evidence, Alabama Rules of Appellate Procedure …
California (ca)	1,581	3	California Rules of Court, California Standards of Judicial Administration, California Ethics Standards for Neutral Arbitrators…
Connecticut (ct)	1,633	4	Connecticut Practice Book, Rules for the Superior C…, Connecticut Practice Book, Rules of Appellate Proce…, Connecticut Rules of Professional Conduct, Connecticut Code of Judicial Conduct
Delaware (de)	1,320	15	Delaware Court of Chancery Rules, Delaware Family Court Civil Rules, Delaware Superior Court Rules of Civil Procedure, Delaware Court of Common Pleas Civil Rules …
Florida (fl)	88	1	Florida Evidence Code (Florida Statutes Chapter 90)
Iowa (ia)	1,178	49	Iowa Court Rules, Chapter 1 — Rules of Civil Proced…, Iowa Court Rules, Chapter 2 — Rules of Criminal Pro…, Iowa Court Rules, Chapter 6 — Rules of Appellate Pr…, Iowa Court Rules, Chapter 5 — Rules of Evidence …
Idaho (id)	713	12	I.R.C.P., I.R.F.L.P., I.A.R., I.C.R. …
Illinois (il)	478	2	Illinois Supreme Court Rules, Illinois Rules of Evidence
Kansas (ks)	458	16	ATTORNEY DISCIPLINE, DISTRICT COURTS, APPELLATE PRACTICE, CONTINUING JUDICIAL EDUCATION …
Louisiana (la)	122	3	Louisiana Rules for District Courts, Title IV (Rule…, Louisiana Rules for District Courts, Title II (Rule…, Louisiana Rules for District Courts, Title I (Rules…
Maine (me)	726	16	Maine Rules of Civil Procedure, Maine Rules of Probate Procedure, Maine Rules of Unified Criminal Procedure, Maine Rules of Evidence …
Minnesota (mn)	270	37	cp, gp, cr, ev …
Montana (mt)	307	7	Montana Rules of Civil Procedure, Montana Rules of Evidence, Montana Rules of Appellate Procedure, Montana Justice and City Court Rules of Civil Proce… …
North Carolina (nc)	185	3	North Carolina Rules of Civil Procedure, North Carolina Rules of Evidence, North Carolina Rules of Appellate Procedure
North Dakota (nd)	692	18	NDRCIVP, NDREV, NDRCRIMP, NDSUPCTADMINR …
Nebraska (ne)	685	1	Nebraska Supreme Court Rules
New Jersey (nj)	995	1	Rules Governing the Courts of the State of New Jers…
New York (ny)	892	3	New York Uniform Rules for the Trial Courts (22 NYC…, New York Rules of the Chief Administrator of the Co…, New York Rules of the Chief Judge (22 NYCRR Parts 1…
Ohio (oh)	749	8	Ohio Rules of Superintendence, Supreme Court Rules of Practice, Ohio Rules of Civil Procedure, Ohio Rules of Criminal Procedure …
Oregon (or)	78	1	Oregon Rules of Civil Procedure
Rhode Island (ri)	367	6	Rhode Island Superior Court Rules of Civil Procedure, Rhode Island District Court Civil Rules, Rhode Island Rules of Evidence, Rhode Island Superior Court Rules of Criminal Proce… …
South Dakota (sd)	485	3	South Dakota Rules of Civil Procedure (SDCL ch. 15-…, South Dakota Rules of Appellate Procedure (SDCL ch.…, South Dakota Rules of Evidence (SDCL ch. 19-19)
Texas (tx)	1,553	7	trcp, trap, tre, txcprc …
Utah (ut)	1,176	10	SCRP, UCJA, URCP, URE …
Virginia (va)	315	1	Rules of the Supreme Court of Virginia
Washington (wa)	1,237	33	RAP, ELC, CR, CRLJ …
Wisconsin (wi)	753	2	Wisconsin Rules of Civil Procedure (chs. 801-847, s…, Wisconsin Rules of Evidence (chs. 901-911, statutor…

Every count is measured from the file in data/ as of 2026-09-11.

The record

Every row is the same shape, whatever court it came from — thirteen columns, all strings:

id, level (federal | state), jurisdiction, court, rule_set, rule_number, citation, title, text (verbatim), source (the URL), license, retrieved_at, extra.

rule_set is whatever name the publishing court uses — a short code (frcp, trcp, wa_rap) where the source is organised that way, the full title ("Delaware Court of Chancery Rules") where it is not. extra is a JSON string (parse it with json.loads) carrying whatever else the source exposed — chapter, article, caption, history note, edition — so that it can differ by court without breaking the shared schema. court is null where the source did not name the promulgating court.

Load it

from datasets import load_dataset
rules   = load_dataset("docketx/court-rules")             # everything
federal = load_dataset("docketx/court-rules", "federal")  # FRCP, FRAP, FRE …
state   = load_dataset("docketx/court-rules", "state")    # every state set

What is and is not here

Court rules only. US Code and state statute text live in docketx/us-statutes; 1,712 statute rows were deliberately excluded from this build so that "court rules" means court rules. South Dakota and Montana are the edge case — those two states codify their rules of procedure inside the statute code itself (SDCL ch. 15-6, MCA Title 25), so their rules are cited as statutes but are court rules and are held here. County and municipal local rules are the next layer and are being added jurisdiction by jurisdiction; a state absent from the table above is one whose rules we have not yet verified from an official source, not one whose rules we hold and withheld.

Public-domain government works. Part of the DocketX open legal corpus, alongside docketx/us-caselaw (10.8M opinions), docketx/us-statutes, docketx/oral-arguments-us and docketx/us-judges.