Datasets:
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
07bb492d5cc32bca | opinion | me | In re Lacie G. |
PER CURIAM
[¶ 1] The mother of Lacie G. and Tyler S. appeals from judgments 1 of the District Court (Ellsworth, Roberts, J.) terminating her parental rights to Lacie and Tyler pursuant to 22 M.R.S. § 4055(1)(A)(1)(a), (B)(2) (2016). 2 She challenges the sufficiency of the evidence, to support the judgments and... | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/4977239 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | me-me | 2017-06-22T00:00:00 | {
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"cluster_id": "5156053",
"opinion_type": "020lead",
"text_kind": "html_with_citations",
"source_label": "courtlistener"
} | |
215fc683efe1d210 | opinion | me | Dorey v. Forster Manufacturing Co. |
591 A.2d 240 (1991)
Arlene DOREY
v.
FORSTER MANUFACTURING COMPANY.
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.
Argued March 7, 1991.
Decided May 15, 1991.
Jeffrey R. Burns and Susan E. Kelley (orally), Preti, Flaherty, Believeau & Pachios, Rumford, for employee.
*241 Samuel Rudman and Barbara A.... | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/1996318 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | me-me | 1991-05-15T00:00:00 | {
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} | |
a945d1b895412739 | opinion | me | State of Maine v. Jonathan Limary | MAINE SUPREME JUDICIAL COURT Reporter of Decisions
Decision: 2020 ME 83
Docket: Aro-19-329
Submitted
On Briefs: April 14, 2020
Decided: June 4, 2020
Panel: MEAD, GORMAN, JABAR, HUMPHREY, HORTON, and CONNORS, JJ.
STA... | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/4538888 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | me-me | 2020-06-04T00:00:00 | {
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b22c169ae83e04f9 | opinion | me | Teresa D. Needham v. Charles D. Needham | MAINE SUPREME JUDICIAL COURT Reporter of Decisions
Decision: 2022 ME 7
Docket: Oxf-21-172
Submitted
On Briefs: October 20, 2021
Decided: January 27, 2022
Panel: STANFILL, C.J., and MEAD, GORMAN, JABAR, HUMPHREY, HORTON, and CONNORS, JJ.
... | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/6113188 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | me-me | 2022-01-27T00:00:00 | {
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"cluster_id": "6246011",
"opinion_type": "010combined",
"text_kind": "plain_text",
"source_label": "courtlistener"
} | |
f931345fe215dd46 | opinion | me | Patricia Sarchi v. Uber Technologies, Inc. | MAINE SUPREME JUDICIAL COURT Reporter of Decisions
Decision: 2022 ME 8
Docket: Cum-21-117
Argued: October 6, 2021
Decided: January 27, 2022
Panel: STANFILL, C.J., and MEAD, GORMAN, JABAR, HUMPHREY, HORTON, and CONNORS, JJ.
... | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/6113189 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | me-me | 2022-01-27T00:00:00 | {
"cl_opinion_id": "6113189",
"cluster_id": "6246012",
"opinion_type": "010combined",
"text_kind": "plain_text",
"source_label": "courtlistener"
} | |
c14d0f38e8c0373f | opinion | me | Kayla Doherty v. Merck & Co., Inc. | MAINE SUPREME JUDICIAL COURT Reporter of Decisions
Decision: 2017 ME 19
Docket: Fed-16-14
Argued: September 8, 2016
Decided: January 26, 2017
Panel: SAUFLEY, C.J., and ALEXANDER, MEAD, GORMAN,* JABAR, and HUMPHREY, JJ.
Majority: SAUFLEY, C.J.... | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/4118801 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | me-me | 2017-01-26T00:00:00 | {
"cl_opinion_id": "4118801",
"cluster_id": "4341540",
"opinion_type": "010combined",
"text_kind": "plain_text",
"source_label": "courtlistener"
} | |
1f5f5f61c8f9a95d | opinion | me | Henry v. Miller |
Dan FORTH, J.
An heir appealing from an allowance by commissioners of insolvency is liable under R. S., c. 66, § 11, to have costs awarded against him if the creditor recover, though the amount may be less than that awarded by the commissioners.
In such case the claimant is the prevailing party.
Exceptions o... | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/4932341 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | me-me | 1872-07-01T00:00:00 | {
"cl_opinion_id": "4932341",
"cluster_id": "5113698",
"opinion_type": "020lead",
"text_kind": "html_with_citations",
"source_label": "courtlistener"
} | |
66794425afac46bd | opinion | me | Hooper v. Cummings |
The opinion of the Court was drawn up by
Cutting, J.
It appears from the report of the evidence in this case, that on April 6, 1803, Jonathan Cummings conveyed to Nathan Woodbury and others, all of Paris, “ a committee appointed to build a meeting-house in said town,” four acres and seven rods of land situated... | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/4930511 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | me-me | 1858-07-01T00:00:00 | {
"cl_opinion_id": "4930511",
"cluster_id": "5111944",
"opinion_type": "020lead",
"text_kind": "html_with_citations",
"source_label": "courtlistener"
} | |
5634fec92ffbd7c4 | opinion | me | State v. Grandmaison |
ARCHIBALD, Justice.
The defendant was indicted for Robbery (17 M.R.S.A. § 3401) and, after trial before a jury, was convicted. We deny the defendant’s appeal from that conviction.
Appellant and one Michael Niemszyk were separately indicted for the identical offense. The facts of the instant case a... | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/1538877 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | me-me | 1974-11-12T00:00:00 | {
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"text_kind": "html_with_citations",
"source_label": "courtlistener"
} | |
45cb4747bde881c1 | opinion | me | Burnham v. Grand Trunk Railway Co. |
Danforth, J.
In this case there is no conflict of testimony, so far as it relates to the liability of the defendants ; no facts in relation to this point for the jury to pass upon. The instruction was that the action could be maintained, leaving only the question of damages to the jury. If this was correct, the de... | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/4932643 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | me-me | 1873-07-01T00:00:00 | {
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} |
Maine 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 31,116 Maine appellate opinion documents from the public record, sliced from the Free Law Project / CourtListener bulk export of 2026-06-30.
Court coverage (1 court ids, explicit allowlist — never prefix-matched):
me.
Lead opinions and separate opinions; documents under 1 characters excluded.
Slice sha256 4435644cb977c443d9f57fee93ecac616532035d4c5ada3dd7b84d3698988c2f (also in slice.manifest.json).
Composition
Measured on this exact slice: 27,109 documents (87.1%) carry 2,000+
characters of text, 3,887 (12.5%) carry 200-1,999, and 120
(0.4%) 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-me")
Part of the DocketRouter legal corpora: https://huggingface.co/docketx
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