id stringlengths 16 16 | doc_type stringclasses 1
value | jurisdiction stringclasses 5
values | title stringlengths 4 1.93k | text stringlengths 10 534k | source stringlengths 36 38 | license stringclasses 1
value | retrieved_at stringdate 2026-06-30 00:00:00 2026-06-30 00:00:00 | citation stringclasses 1
value | court stringclasses 19
values | date stringdate 1803-05-09 00:00:00 2026-10-20 00:00:00 | extra dict |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
7a1fafdb714bece5 | opinion | al | Elliott v. International Paper Co. |
SHAW, Justice
(dissenting).
I respectfully dissent. Venue in this case is determined by Ala.Code 1975, § 6-3-7(a)(3), which states that, as to a foreign or domestic corporation, venue is proper:
“(3) In the county in which the plaintiff resided ... at the time of the accrual of the cause of action, if such cor... | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/4870713 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30 00:00:00 | al-ala | 2011-08-19 00:00:00 | {
"cl_opinion_id": "4870713",
"cluster_id": "5055928",
"opinion_type": "040dissent",
"text_kind": "html_with_citations",
"source_label": "courtlistener"
} | |
ee0f767bd583dcd2 | opinion | al | F.Z. v. S.P. |
THOMAS, Judge.
F.Z. (“the father”) appeals from a judgment of the Jefferson Juvenile Court denying his petition to modify custody. We dismiss the appeal as being taken from a void judgment.
*921 On October 14, 2010, the father filed a petition in the juvenile court to modify custody of D.Z. (“the child”), who h... | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/4870715 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30 00:00:00 | al-alacivapp | 2011-09-02 00:00:00 | {
"cl_opinion_id": "4870715",
"cluster_id": "5055930",
"opinion_type": "020lead",
"text_kind": "html_with_citations",
"source_label": "courtlistener"
} | |
7d51cd185069224c | opinion | al | Kreitzberg v. Kreitzberg, 2100269 (ala.civ.app. 9-2-2011) |
THOMAS, Judge.
Ernest Kreitzberg (“the husband”) appeals from a judgment of the Baldwin Circuit Court divorcing him from Myra Kreitzberg (“the wife”) that, among other things, awarded the wife alimony and divided the marital property between the parties. The wife cross-appeals from the trial court’s judgment divor... | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/4870717 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30 00:00:00 | al-alacivapp | 2011-09-02 00:00:00 | {
"cl_opinion_id": "4870717",
"cluster_id": "5055932",
"opinion_type": "020lead",
"text_kind": "html_with_citations",
"source_label": "courtlistener"
} | |
7f51db97e91ced19 | opinion | al | Tracy Lynn Mullins v. Lisa Christine Sellers. |
BRYAN, Judge.
This is the second time these parties, Tracy Lynn Mullins (“the father”) and Lisa Christine Sellers (“the mother”), have been before this court. In Mullins v. Sellers, 58 So.3d 817 (Ala.Civ.App.2010), the father appealed from a judgment of the Madison Circuit Court (“the trial court”) that foun... | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/4870718 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30 00:00:00 | al-alacivapp | 2011-09-02 00:00:00 | {
"cl_opinion_id": "4870718",
"cluster_id": "5055933",
"opinion_type": "020lead",
"text_kind": "html_with_citations",
"source_label": "courtlistener"
} | |
d9d56f8a708df1e2 | opinion | al | Reed v. White, 2100444 (ala.civ.app. 9-9-2011) |
MOORE, Judge.
Alvin Reed, as director of the Perry County Department of Human Resources (“DHR”), appeals from a judgment of the Perry Circuit Court (“the trial court”) issuing a common-law writ of certiorari requiring Reed to reinstate the employment of Christine White (“White”) with full back pay. We dismiss the ... | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/4870720 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30 00:00:00 | al-alacivapp | 2011-09-09 00:00:00 | {
"cl_opinion_id": "4870720",
"cluster_id": "5055935",
"opinion_type": "020lead",
"text_kind": "html_with_citations",
"source_label": "courtlistener"
} | |
93f8c0677687a2d1 | opinion | al | Austin Conner v. Alabama State Board of Pharmacy. |
THOMPSON, Presiding Judge.
Austin Conner, a licensed pharmacist, appeals from a Montgomery Circuit Court judgment denying his petition seeking review of a decision of the Alabama State Board of Pharmacy (“the Board”).
After a December 16, 2009, hearing in the underlying administrative action, the Board determine... | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/4870722 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30 00:00:00 | al-alacivapp | 2011-09-16 00:00:00 | {
"cl_opinion_id": "4870722",
"cluster_id": "5055937",
"opinion_type": "020lead",
"text_kind": "html_with_citations",
"source_label": "courtlistener"
} | |
9458a557010a2117 | opinion | al | Dominique Ray v. State of Alabama. | " \n KELLUM, Judge. \n The appellant, Dominique Ray, an inmate on death row at Holman Correctional F(...TRUNCATED) | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/4870723 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30 00:00:00 | al-alacrimapp | 2011-02-04 00:00:00 | {"cl_opinion_id":"4870723","cluster_id":"5055938","opinion_type":"020lead","text_kind":"html_with_ci(...TRUNCATED) | |
3a8a3f194614e87c | opinion | al | Thomas v. Earnest, 1091428 (Ala. 3-4-2011) | " \n SHAW, Justice. \n Larry Thomas, the plaintiff below, appeals from a summary judgment in favor o(...TRUNCATED) | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/4867975 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30 00:00:00 | al-ala | 2011-03-04 00:00:00 | {"cl_opinion_id":"4867975","cluster_id":"5053384","opinion_type":"020lead","text_kind":"html_with_ci(...TRUNCATED) | |
5cabd0d0ec4a1591 | opinion | al | MacK v. Carmack, 1091040 (Ala. 9-9-2011) | " \n PER CURIAM. \n April Mack (“Mack”), the mother of Baby Mack, 1 appeals from a summary judg(...TRUNCATED) | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/4870184 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30 00:00:00 | al-ala | 2011-09-09 00:00:00 | {"cl_opinion_id":"4870184","cluster_id":"5055437","opinion_type":"020lead","text_kind":"html_with_ci(...TRUNCATED) | |
bd9f0dc3af2cf468 | opinion | al | Garrison Steel Fabricators, Inc. v. No. 1 Steel Products, Inc. | " \n MURDOCK, Justice \n (dissenting). \n I respectfully dissent. Although my vote is consistent wit(...TRUNCATED) | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/4869344 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30 00:00:00 | al-ala | 2011-07-29 00:00:00 | {"cl_opinion_id":"4869344","cluster_id":"5054673","opinion_type":"040dissent","text_kind":"html_with(...TRUNCATED) |
US Caselaw
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.
The American case-law record in one dataset — published opinions from the Free Law Project / CourtListener bulk export of 2026-06-30: full text, all opinion types (majority, concurring, dissenting, per curiam, orders), one uniform row format across every jurisdiction.
10,797,772 opinions are live in this repo across 50 states + DC, the Supreme Court, the federal appellate, district, bankruptcy and special courts, the U.S. territories, the tribal courts, and a catch-all of state trial courts, attorney-general opinions and specialty tribunals that no other series carries. Every number on this page was measured by counting the lines of the actual uploaded file; none is an estimate.
Load it
from datasets import load_dataset
ds = load_dataset("docketx/us-caselaw", split="train") # everything
ds = load_dataset("docketx/us-caselaw", split="train", streaming=True) # 60 GB — stream it
One jurisdiction only? Each also stands alone as docketx/us-caselaw-<code> (e.g.
docketx/us-caselaw-tx), which is much cheaper than pulling the union.
Row format
Every row is docketx record v1. Every column is a string in every file:
| field | meaning |
|---|---|
id |
stable docketx document id |
doc_type |
opinion |
jurisdiction |
jurisdiction code — the <code> in data/<code>/ |
title |
case caption |
text |
full opinion text |
source |
origin of the record (CourtListener) |
license |
public-domain |
retrieved_at |
bulk-export date |
citation |
reporter citation where the source has one |
court |
court identifier |
date |
date filed |
extra |
cl_opinion_id, cluster_id, opinion_type, text_kind, source_label |
The schema is declared in dataset_info above rather than inferred, and the opinions config lists
its files explicitly. That is deliberate: a blind data/*/*.jsonl.gz glob previously pulled
statute and court-rule files (which carry rule_set/rule_number and a differently-shaped extra)
into the same config, so the parquet conversion inferred its schema from the first file, hit a
column-name mismatch, and failed the whole dataset to 0 rows. Statutes and rules now live only in
docketx/us-statutes and docketx/court-rules, where they belong.
What is here — measured counts
States and DC
| jurisdiction | code | opinions |
|---|---|---|
| Alabama | al |
166,537 |
| Alaska | ak |
14,914 |
| Arizona | az |
44,194 |
| Arkansas | ar |
80,470 |
| California | ca |
242,831 |
| Colorado | co |
62,317 |
| Connecticut | ct |
61,409 |
| Delaware | de |
23,480 |
| District of Columbia | dc |
26,001 |
| Florida | fl |
447,040 |
| Georgia | ga |
230,300 |
| Hawaii | hi |
35,879 |
| Idaho | id |
35,820 |
| Illinois | il |
249,250 |
| Indiana | in |
136,110 |
| Iowa | ia |
83,272 |
| Kansas | ks |
69,413 |
| Kentucky | ky |
92,146 |
| Louisiana | la |
367,729 |
| Maine | me |
31,116 |
| Maryland | md |
53,833 |
| Massachusetts | ma |
90,879 |
| Michigan | mi |
159,686 |
| Minnesota | mn |
71,487 |
| Mississippi | ms |
76,841 |
| Missouri | mo |
161,325 |
| Montana | mt |
64,117 |
| Nebraska | ne |
51,154 |
| Nevada | nv |
36,992 |
| New Hampshire | nh |
22,351 |
| New Jersey | nj |
142,776 |
| New Mexico | nm |
35,069 |
| New York | ny |
963,045 |
| North Carolina | nc |
148,915 |
| North Dakota | nd |
27,900 |
| Ohio | oh |
270,910 |
| Oklahoma | ok |
81,558 |
| Oregon | or |
86,341 |
| Pennsylvania | pa |
347,902 |
| Rhode Island | ri |
26,773 |
| South Carolina | sc |
62,793 |
| South Dakota | sd |
25,593 |
| Tennessee | tn |
92,508 |
| Texas | tx |
662,717 |
| Utah | ut |
34,886 |
| Vermont | vt |
27,714 |
| Virginia | va |
54,048 |
| Washington | wa |
150,239 |
| West Virginia | wv |
39,546 |
| Wisconsin | wi |
72,350 |
| Wyoming | wy |
16,358 |
| 51 jurisdictions | 6,658,834 |
Federal, territorial, tribal and catch-all
| tier | code | opinions | state |
|---|---|---|---|
| Supreme Court of the United States | scotus |
521,825 | complete |
| Federal bankruptcy courts | fed-bankruptcy |
79,523 | complete |
| Federal special courts | fed-special |
280,860 | complete |
| U.S. territories | territories |
67,210 | complete |
| Tribal courts | tribal |
2,205 | complete |
| Federal appellate (all circuits) | fed-appellate |
1,510,937 | complete |
| Federal district courts | fed-district |
1,199,105 | complete |
| State trial courts, AG opinions, specialty tribunals (1,612 court ids) | extras |
477,273 | complete |
Every count on this page was measured on 2026-09-17 by decompressing each file the opinions config
loads and counting its lines. Every state's loaded data is byte-identical to its standalone
docketx/us-caselaw-<code> dataset (same SHA-256; Texas as three parts holding the same 662,717 rows), and
each of those counts matched its publish manifest exactly. Total: 10,797,772 opinions.
The bulk export holds 10,798,347 opinions. The extras slice (added 2026-09-17, 477,273 rows, 0 duplicate ids,
slice sha256 9123f2d3cdff3c48…) carries the 1,612 state courts that no per-jurisdiction plan included (477,294
opinions; 21 of them have empty text). It includes 67,524 attorney-general opinion reports from 16 states, which are official
opinions but not court decisions. To exclude them, drop rows whose court is extras- followed by one of: texag, oklaag, arkag, laag, flaag, nyag, nebag, moag, wisag, calag, kanag, coloag, mdag, washag, minnag, paag. (Do not filter on a trailing ag: Ohio's Portage County courts and an Onondaga County court also end that way.) 575 opinions are in no
file, each for a known reason: 533 in planned courts and 21 in extras have empty text, and 21 have a cluster or
docket missing from the bulk export itself.
Superseded files still on disk
Until 2026-09-17 this page's config loaded an older, smaller slice for 44 jurisdictions (the page then
served 9,095,360 of 10,320,499; Florida loaded 259,051 of 447,040, California 227,809 of 242,831). The
config now loads the complete opinions-2026-06-30.v1.jsonl.gz for those 44. The older files are no
longer part of any config and are kept only until they are removed in a cleanup commit.
Coverage honesty
The open record is appellate-heavy. Most US trial-court rulings are published nowhere at all — no database has them, including this one. What is here is the published record.
Provenance and license
Judicial opinions are edicts of government and carry no copyright (Banks v. Manchester, 128 U.S. 244 (1888); Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org, 590 U.S. 255 (2020)). Packaging is CC0 1.0. Source: CourtListener bulk export of 2026-06-30, Free Law Project — https://free.law.
Built by DocketX — the same corpus powers the verified legal API at docketrouter.ai.
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