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 # Michigan Case Law
 
-Full text of 139,199 Michigan appellate opinion documents from the public record,
+Full text of 159,686 Michigan appellate opinion documents from the public record,
 sliced from the Free Law Project / CourtListener bulk export of 2026-06-30.
 
 Court coverage (3 court ids, explicit allowlist — never prefix-matched):
 `mich`, `michchanct`, `michctapp`.
 
-Lead opinions; documents under 500 characters excluded.
-Slice sha256 `7b0e195097b9b951974d9336063e3f66d870abc68bf5137352ca7898ef876a98` (also in `slice.manifest.json`).
+Lead opinions and separate opinions; documents under 1 characters excluded.
+Slice sha256 `1ee2289f9f8fe413a8e4f1fec4a9296245996b2b6d018d11d1d0d1b5d9ad5a22` (also in `slice.manifest.json`).
+
+## Composition
+
+Measured on this exact slice: **137,711** documents (86.2%) carry 2,000+
+characters of text, 18,427 (11.5%) carry 200-1,999, and 3,548
+(2.2%) 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