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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
808e001e85dd5bd5 | opinion | fl | Department of Children & Families v. Lotton |
The Department of Children and Families (“DCF”) seeks a writ of certiorari to quash the trial court’s orders adjudicating a criminal defendant, Becky Lotton (“Defendant”), incompetent and committing her to DCF’s custody. After Defendant repeatedly exhibited very unusual behavior in court, in jail, and in communicati... | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/4821739 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | fl-fladistctapp | 2015-08-28T00:00:00 | {
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b5166a0be0608999 | opinion | fl | State v. Brown |
CORTIÑAS, J.
In the early morning hours of an October day, Michael Morris (“Morris”) and his friend, Nigel Whatley (“Victim”), exited a nightclub and walked to a parking lot where Morris intended to show his new car to the Victim. After arriving at the vehicle, which was parked next to a street light, Morris and t... | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/4869544 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | fl-fladistctapp | 2011-11-09T00:00:00 | {
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} | |
e6bac1d3f17dde47 | opinion | fl | Treacy v. Lamberti |
GROSS, J.
Petitioner, a juvenile, is charged with attempted first degree premeditated murder with a deadly weapon, a life felony. In this petition for writ of habeas corpus, he contends that Graham v. Florida, - U.S. -, 130 S.Ct. 2011 , 176 L.Ed.2d 825 (2010), entitles him to bond as a matter of right. We... | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/4870470 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | fl-fladistctapp | 2012-01-25T00:00:00 | {
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2009d936bc8fac77 | opinion | fl | Michael Charles Desue v. Julie L. Jones, etc. | Supreme Court of Florida
____________
No. SC16-1222
____________
MICHAEL CHARLES DESUE,
Petitioner,
vs.
... | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/4154979 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | fl-fla | 2017-03-23T00:00:00 | {
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0eb6a530390137ff | opinion | fl | Gray v. Department of Corrections | IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF FLORIDA
FIFTH DISTRICT
NOT FINAL UNTIL TIME EXPIRES TO
FILE MOTION FOR REHEARING AND
DIS... | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/4105907 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | fl-fladistctapp | 2016-12-02T00:00:00 | {
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ceb693366933245a | opinion | fl | Baxter v. State | NOT FINAL UNTIL TIME EXPIRES TO FILE REHEARING
MOTION AND, IF FILED, DETERMINED
IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL
OF FLORIDA
SECOND DISTRICT
JAMES... | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/4105984 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | fl-fladistctapp | 2016-12-09T00:00:00 | {
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d367f5fdd5de6fbd | opinion | fl | State v. Stahl | NOT FINAL UNTIL TIME EXPIRES TO FILE REHEARING
MOTION AND, IF FILED, DETERMINED
IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL
OF FLORIDA
SECOND ... | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/4105988 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | fl-fladistctapp | 2016-12-07T00:00:00 | {
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a194e188acfbb6a5 | opinion | fl | Gudmestad v. State | NOT FINAL UNTIL TIME EXPIRES TO FILE REHEARING
MOTION AND, IF FILED, DETERMINED
IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL
OF FLORIDA
SECOND DISTRICT
LAWRENCE GUDMESTA... | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/4105991 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | fl-fladistctapp | 2016-12-07T00:00:00 | {
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751e8c4f32c3e04a | opinion | fl | The Florida Bar v. Jean M. Picon | Supreme Court of Florida
____________
No. SC15-385
____________
THE FLORIDA BAR,
Complainant,
vs.
... | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/4105666 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | fl-fla | 2016-12-08T00:00:00 | {
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"cluster_id": "4328405",
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"text_kind": "plain_text",
"source_label": "courtlistener"
} | |
560ad38fa0923dc5 | opinion | fl | In Re: Amendments to the Florida Rules of Judicial Administration | Supreme Court of Florida
____________
No. SC15-1594
____________
IN RE: AMENDMENTS TO THE FLORIDA RULES OF JUDICIAL
ADMINISTRATION.
[December 8, 201... | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/4105668 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | fl-fla | 2016-12-08T00:00:00 | {
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"cluster_id": "4328407",
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} | |
1969238a0ced819c | opinion | fl | Bender v. State |
472 So.2d 1370 (1985)
Ernest BENDER, Appellant,
v.
The STATE of Florida, Appellee.
No. 84-1768.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.
July 30, 1985.
*1371 Bennett H. Brummer, Public Defender and Karen M. Gottlieb, Asst. Public Defender, for appellant.
Jim Smith, Atty. Gen. ... | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/1946417 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | fl-fladistctapp | 1985-07-30T00:00:00 | {
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"source_label": "courtlistener"
} | |
3e5383847b839a52 | opinion | fl | Daniels v. State |
PER CURIAM.
AFFIRMED. See Flagg v. State, 74 So.3d 138 (Fla. 1st DCA 2011).
VAN NORTWICK, LEWIS, and SWANSON, JJ., concur.
| cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/4870963 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | fl-fladistctapp | 2012-03-30T00:00:00 | {
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"text_kind": "html_with_citations",
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} | |
ec82ef95231fe56e | opinion | fl | Ross v. State |
PER CURIAM.
AFFIRMED. See Flagg v. State, 74 So.3d 138 (Fla. 1st DCA 2011).
BENTON, C.J., WOLF and VAN NORTWICK, JJ., concur.
| cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/4870964 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | fl-fladistctapp | 2012-03-30T00:00:00 | {
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"text_kind": "html_with_citations",
"source_label": "courtlistener"
} | |
a57f688341b97480 | opinion | fl | LE PUBLICATIONS, INC. v. RANDALL KOHL | DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF FLORIDA
FOURTH DISTRICT
LE PUBLICATIONS, INC., LIFE EXTENSION FOUNDATION BUYERS
CLUB, INC., and LIFE EXTENSION CLINICAL RESEARCH, INC.,
Appellants,
v.
... | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/4536796 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | fl-fladistctapp | 2020-05-27T00:00:00 | {
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"source_label": "courtlistener"
} | |
cce02fb0211a8001 | opinion | fl | DW v. State |
77 So.3d 804 (2011)
D.W., Appellant,
v.
STATE of Florida, Appellee.
No. 2D10-5267.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.
December 28, 2011.
James Marion Moorman, Public Defender, and Alisa Smith, Assistant Public Defender, Bartow, for Appellant.
Pamela Jo Bondi, Attorney Gen... | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/2491776 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | fl-fladistctapp | 2011-12-28T00:00:00 | {
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} | |
4b454d7fb5232e3c | opinion | fl | Crow, Pope & Carter, Inc. v. James |
HUBBART, Judge.
By this interlocutory appeal, we are called upon to review the propriety of a temporary injunction. We reverse the order granting the temporary injunction because same failed to provide for the posting of a bond. The law is clear that “[wjhen a temporary injunction is granted, the court shall requi... | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/7485668 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | fl-fladistctapp | 1977-09-13T00:00:00 | {
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"text_kind": "html_with_citations",
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} | |
b23781d118b4329a | opinion | fl | Childers v. State |
713 So.2d 431 (1998)
John CHILDERS, Appellant,
v.
STATE of Florida, Appellee.
No. 96-04568.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.
May 29, 1998.
Rehearing Denied July 9, 1998.
*432 Bernard F. Daley, Jr., Tallahassee, for Appellant.
Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, T... | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/1843766 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | fl-fladistctapp | 1998-05-29T00:00:00 | {
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Florida 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.
Free Law Project is a non-profit, and it is worth supporting: https://free.law/donate/. If this data is useful to you, credit Free Law Project and CourtListener too, and consider going straight to the source: CourtListener runs its own API and MCP server.
Full text of 447,040 Florida appellate opinion documents from the public record, sliced from the Free Law Project / CourtListener bulk export of 2026-06-30.
Court coverage (8 court ids, explicit allowlist — never prefix-matched):
fla, fladistctapp, fladistctapp1, fladistctapp2, fladistctapp3, fladistctapp4, fladistctapp5, fladistctapp6.
Lead opinions and separate opinions; documents under 1 characters excluded.
Slice sha256 75a228cb527d9e753202f5c04f377544ef6e734f23d6f24b60333ed8ca23c115 (also in slice.manifest.json).
Composition
Measured on this exact slice: 161,912 documents (36.2%) carry 2,000+
characters of text, 161,987 (36.2%) carry 200-1,999, and 123,141
(27.5%) 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-fl")
Part of the DocketRouter legal corpora: https://huggingface.co/docketx
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