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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
03660c697060edb9 | opinion | il | People v. Pinkney |
750 N.E.2d 673 (2000)
322 Ill. App.3d 707
255 Ill.Dec. 756
The PEOPLE of the State of Illinois, Plaintiff-Appellee,
v.
Nigel PINKNEY, Defendant-Appellant.
No. 1-98-1415.
Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, Fifth Division.
September 29, 2000.
Rehearing Denied May 5, 2001.
... | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/2115474 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | il-illappct | 2001-05-11T00:00:00 | {
"cl_opinion_id": "2115474",
"cluster_id": "2115474",
"opinion_type": "010combined",
"text_kind": "html_with_citations",
"source_label": "courtlistener"
} | |
0f479b21cc67f0b0 | opinion | il | People v. Dryer | 2021 IL App (2d) 190187
No. 2-19-0187
Opinion filed March 17, 2021
______________________________________________________________________________
IN THE
... | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/4668957 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | il-illappct | 2021-03-17T00:00:00 | {
"cl_opinion_id": "4668957",
"cluster_id": "4865178",
"opinion_type": "010combined",
"text_kind": "plain_text",
"source_label": "courtlistener"
} | |
b4109e9517425f19 | opinion | il | People v. Banta | 2021 IL App (4th) 180761
FILED
March 17, 2021
... | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/4668958 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | il-illappct | 2021-03-17T00:00:00 | {
"cl_opinion_id": "4668958",
"cluster_id": "4865179",
"opinion_type": "010combined",
"text_kind": "plain_text",
"source_label": "courtlistener"
} | |
811e3bdb474d20e0 | opinion | il | Kelleher v. Kelleher |
CORYN, J.
On April 2, 1959, the Circuit Court of Will County granted the plaintiff, Mary Alice Kelleher, a divorce from the defendant, Charles Kelleher. The divorce decree provided, inter alia, that the plaintiff have the custody of the minor children born as issue to said parties, namely, Colleen Marie,... | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/2060772 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | il-illappct | 1966-02-15T00:00:00 | {
"cl_opinion_id": "2060772",
"cluster_id": "2060772",
"opinion_type": "010combined",
"text_kind": "html_with_citations",
"source_label": "courtlistener"
} | |
51bbc59ed37e7b6d | opinion | il | Midkiff v. Gingrich |
JUSTICE CHAPMAN
delivered the opinion of the court:
The plaintiffs, Dr. Marlene Freeman and Dr. Christina Midkiff, filed a complaint against the defendants, Dr. Tina Gingrich and Tina M.F. Gingrich, M.D., P.C., seeking, among other things, nonpublic shareholder relief pursuant to section 12.56 of ... | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/2096973 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | il-illappct | 2005-02-17T00:00:00 | {
"cl_opinion_id": "2096973",
"cluster_id": "2096973",
"opinion_type": "010combined",
"text_kind": "html_with_citations",
"source_label": "courtlistener"
} | |
f81c43161e0136f3 | opinion | il | Grzeszczak v. Illinois Farmers Insurance |
JUSTICE BUCKLEY
delivered the opinion of the court:
Plaintiff Molly Grzeszczak brought suit on behalf of herself and her three minor children for declaratory judgment to determine their rights under the underinsured motorists provisions of two automobile policies issued by defendant Illinois Farme... | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/2047446 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | il-illappct | 1994-05-02T00:00:00 | {
"cl_opinion_id": "2047446",
"cluster_id": "2047446",
"opinion_type": "010combined",
"text_kind": "html_with_citations",
"source_label": "courtlistener"
} | |
5d1f76060c477c3e | opinion | il | Long v. Industrial Commission |
MR. JUSTICE UNDERWOOD
delivered the opinion of the court:
Claimant Barbara A. Long, an employee of respondent Continental Can Company, filed applications for adjustment of her claims for compensation under the Workmen’s Compensation Act (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1971, ch. 48, par. 138.1 et seq.) for injuri... | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/2071318 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | il-ill | 1976-01-26T00:00:00 | {
"cl_opinion_id": "2071318",
"cluster_id": "2071318",
"opinion_type": "010combined",
"text_kind": "html_with_citations",
"source_label": "courtlistener"
} | |
f3faac6a0431eff3 | opinion | il | People v. Tucker |
Mr. JUSTICE DOWNING
delivered the opinion of the court:
Charles Tucker, also known as Tom Kincaid, appeals from a judgment of the circuit court finding him guilty of the offense of theft, in violation of section 16 — 1 of the Criminal Code, and sentencing him to a term of 30 days in the County Jai... | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/2071341 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | il-illappct | 1976-01-27T00:00:00 | {
"cl_opinion_id": "2071341",
"cluster_id": "2071341",
"opinion_type": "010combined",
"text_kind": "html_with_citations",
"source_label": "courtlistener"
} | |
a9155bd6c28befa4 | opinion | il | People v. Dallas | " \n \n \n Mr. JUSTICE WILSON\n \n \n delivered the opinion of the court:\n \n \n After a jury (...TRUNCATED) | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/2065809 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | il-illappct | 1980-05-16T00:00:00 | {"cl_opinion_id":"2065809","cluster_id":"2065809","opinion_type":"010combined","text_kind":"html_wit(...TRUNCATED) | |
85b8270c1991a20c | opinion | il | Bagnola v. Smithkline Beecham Clinical Laboratories | " \n \n \n JUSTICE O’MARA FROSSARD\n \n \n delivered the opinion of the court:\n \n \n Plaint(...TRUNCATED) | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/2071506 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | il-illappct | 2002-08-23T00:00:00 | {"cl_opinion_id":"2071506","cluster_id":"2071506","opinion_type":"010combined","text_kind":"html_wit(...TRUNCATED) |
Illinois 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.
Full text of 249,250 Illinois appellate opinion documents from the public record, sliced from the Free Law Project / CourtListener bulk export of 2026-06-30.
Court coverage (2 court ids, explicit allowlist — never prefix-matched):
ill, illappct.
Lead opinions and separate opinions; documents under 1 characters excluded.
Slice sha256 3b0f9861a1cdc230027fe432d4f4558f937de2bb22e5ec1933c13212a4a3afef (also in slice.manifest.json).
Composition
Measured on this exact slice: 199,916 documents (80.2%) carry 2,000+
characters of text, 20,097 (8.1%) carry 200-1,999, and 29,237
(11.7%) 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-il")
Part of the DocketRouter legal corpora: https://huggingface.co/docketx
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