id string | doc_type string | jurisdiction string | title string | text string | source string | license string | retrieved_at timestamp[s] | citation string | court string | date timestamp[s] | 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 | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | al-ala | 2011-08-19T00:00:00 | {
"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 | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | al-alacivapp | 2011-09-02T00:00:00 | {
"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 | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | al-alacivapp | 2011-09-02T00:00:00 | {
"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 | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | al-alacivapp | 2011-09-02T00:00:00 | {
"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 | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | al-alacivapp | 2011-09-09T00:00:00 | {
"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 | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | al-alacivapp | 2011-09-16T00:00:00 | {
"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 | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | al-alacrimapp | 2011-02-04T00:00:00 | {"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 | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | al-ala | 2011-03-04T00:00:00 | {"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 | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | al-ala | 2011-09-09T00:00:00 | {"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 | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | al-ala | 2011-07-29T00:00:00 | {"cl_opinion_id":"4869344","cluster_id":"5054673","opinion_type":"040dissent","text_kind":"html_with(...TRUNCATED) |
Alabama Case Law
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.
Source & credit — Free Law Project / CourtListener
Every opinion in this dataset comes from the Free Law Project / CourtListener bulk export of 2026-06-30 (10,798,347 opinions). CourtListener gathered, cleaned, deduplicated and published that record; Free Law Project — the 501(c)(3) non-profit behind it, building free public access to American law since 2010 — pays for it. We sliced and reformatted; they did the hard part. Go to the source: https://www.courtlistener.com.
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Full text of 166,537 Alabama appellate opinion documents from the public record, sliced from the Free Law Project / CourtListener bulk export of 2026-06-30.
Court coverage (4 court ids, explicit allowlist — never prefix-matched):
ala, alacivapp, alacrimapp, alactapp.
Lead opinions and separate opinions; documents under 1 characters excluded.
Slice sha256 6c153aa48d0f2f7c1df506791798455dd74c845455f90d363c2bb903faf17e08 (also in slice.manifest.json).
Composition
Measured on this exact slice: 103,233 documents (62.0%) carry 2,000+
characters of text, 27,281 (16.4%) carry 200-1,999, and 36,023
(21.6%) are under 200 characters. The short ones are real records, not errors: certiorari
denials, one-line orders, and judgment entries. They are kept deliberately (min_chars = 1)
so this is the complete public record rather than a filtered subset. Filter on len(text) if you want
only substantive opinions.
Format
Rows follow docketx record v1 (one opinion per line): id, doc_type, jurisdiction, title,
text, source, license, retrieved_at, plus citation, court, date, and extra
(CourtListener opinion/cluster ids, opinion type). The same format is used across every
docketx dataset.
Provenance and license
Judicial opinions are edicts of government: uncopyrightable works of the public domain (Banks v. Manchester, 128 U.S. 244 (1888); Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org, 590 U.S. 255 (2020)). This packaging is released under CC0 1.0. Source: CourtListener bulk export (2026-06-30), Free Law Project — https://free.law. This dataset redistributes public-domain court text; it adds no annotation and asserts no rights.
Load it
from datasets import load_dataset
ds = load_dataset("docketx/us-caselaw-al")
Part of the DocketRouter legal corpora: https://huggingface.co/docketx
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