Datasets:

docketx
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us-caselaw-ri

id string	doc_type string	jurisdiction string	title string	text string	source string	license string	retrieved_at timestamp[s]	court string	date timestamp[s]	extra dict
b31221bc4a71c2d1	opinion	ri	State v. Guzman	OPINION FLANDERS, Justice. After watching a gunman flee on foot from the crime scene, an eyewitness to a fatal shooting called 911, described the shooter to the police, and specified the direction that he was running when last observed. More particularly, he also told the police that the fugitive ...	cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/2071328	public-domain-edict-of-government	2026-06-30T00:00:00	ri-ri	2000-04-21T00:00:00	{ "cl_opinion_id": "2071328", "cluster_id": "2071328", "opinion_type": "010combined", "text_kind": "html_with_citations", "source_label": "courtlistener" }
1c9a8e2e58dd16ec	opinion	ri	Donovan v. Bowling	OPINION BOURCIER, Justice. This case came before us following our granting of the plaintiffs’ petition for writ of certiorari filed after a Superior Court trial justice granted the defendants’ motion in li-mine that sought to disqualify Constance Bowe, M.D., a treating physician and expert witness...	cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/2071513	public-domain-edict-of-government	2026-06-30T00:00:00	ri-ri	1998-02-12T00:00:00	{ "cl_opinion_id": "2071513", "cluster_id": "2071513", "opinion_type": "010combined", "text_kind": "html_with_citations", "source_label": "courtlistener" }
9fe95b8091da6fd0	opinion	ri	State v. Rivera	OPINION FLANDERS, Justice. This case concerns a 1993 drug raid during which Providence police officers executed search warrants for the second- and third-floor apartments in a Providence tenement. The searches yielded enough evidence of heroin and other drug-processing paraphernalia from the third...	cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/2071582	public-domain-edict-of-government	2026-06-30T00:00:00	ri-ri	1997-12-23T00:00:00	{ "cl_opinion_id": "2071582", "cluster_id": "2071582", "opinion_type": "010combined", "text_kind": "html_with_citations", "source_label": "courtlistener" }
b331934c66b2a4bb	opinion	ri	Bruce Pollak v. 217 Indian Avenue, LLC	December 17, 2019 Supreme Court No. 2017-368-Appeal. (NC 17-240) Bruce Pollak ...	cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/4470168	public-domain-edict-of-government	2026-06-30T00:00:00	ri-ri	2019-12-17T00:00:00	{ "cl_opinion_id": "4470168", "cluster_id": "4692876", "opinion_type": "010combined", "text_kind": "plain_text", "source_label": "courtlistener" }
1b60390503ebc1df	opinion	ri	John Ferreira v. Child and Family Services of Rhode Island	December 17, 2019 Supreme Court No. 2018-177-Appeal. (NC 17-330) John Ferre...	cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/4470167	public-domain-edict-of-government	2026-06-30T00:00:00	ri-ri	2019-12-17T00:00:00	{ "cl_opinion_id": "4470167", "cluster_id": "4692875", "opinion_type": "010combined", "text_kind": "plain_text", "source_label": "courtlistener" }
56fc4ffc17ad7f3b	opinion	ri	Lisa Garant v. Michael E. Winchester	Supreme Court No. 2015-339-Appeal. (PC 13-3697) Lisa Garant : v. : Michael E. Win...	cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/4105725	public-domain-edict-of-government	2026-06-30T00:00:00	ri-ri	2016-12-08T00:00:00	{ "cl_opinion_id": "4105725", "cluster_id": "4328464", "opinion_type": "010combined", "text_kind": "plain_text", "source_label": "courtlistener" }
95216e957fa624f2	opinion	ri	Crum v. Horowitz	ORDER The plaintiff, Brian K. Crum (plaintiff or Crum), appeals from a Superior Court jury verdict in favor of the defendants, Jordan W. Horowitz, Linda L. Horowitz (Mrs. Horowitz), and Ford Motor Credit Company (collectively defendants). After a nine-day trial, the jury found, by way of special interrog...	cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/2074626	public-domain-edict-of-government	2026-06-30T00:00:00	ri-ri	2006-05-01T00:00:00	{ "cl_opinion_id": "2074626", "cluster_id": "2074626", "opinion_type": "010combined", "text_kind": "html_with_citations", "source_label": "courtlistener" }
e05abddb2bd29857	opinion	ri	State v. Joseph Segrain	January 27, 2021 Supreme Court No. 2019-13-C.A. (P2/12-140A) State : ...	cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/4654959	public-domain-edict-of-government	2026-06-30T00:00:00	ri-ri	2021-01-27T00:00:00	{ "cl_opinion_id": "4654959", "cluster_id": "4851180", "opinion_type": "010combined", "text_kind": "plain_text", "source_label": "courtlistener" }
f21bc0453d64a903	opinion	ri	State v. Andrew Smith	"January 27, 2021\n\n Supreme Court\n\n (...TRUNCATED)	cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/4654960	public-domain-edict-of-government	2026-06-30T00:00:00	ri-ri	2021-01-27T00:00:00	{"cl_opinion_id":"4654960","cluster_id":"4851181","opinion_type":"010combined","text_kind":"plain_te(...TRUNCATED)
c80f666c362e83a9	opinion	ri	Charles Martin v. Glen Wilson	"March 19, 2021\n\n\n Supreme Court\n\n (...TRUNCATED)	cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/4669568	public-domain-edict-of-government	2026-06-30T00:00:00	ri-ri	2021-03-19T00:00:00	{"cl_opinion_id":"4669568","cluster_id":"4865789","opinion_type":"010combined","text_kind":"plain_te(...TRUNCATED)

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Rhode Island 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 26,773 Rhode Island 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): ri.

Lead opinions and separate opinions; documents under 1 characters excluded. Slice sha256 88988fda6192378b86e8181cbe0c586cd5a8bd9a582e0b9c8d2ad879396da9bc (also in slice.manifest.json).

Composition

Measured on this exact slice: 20,719 documents (77.4%) carry 2,000+ characters of text, 3,333 (12.4%) carry 200-1,999, and 2,721 (10.2%) 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

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-ri")

Part of the DocketRouter legal corpora: https://huggingface.co/docketx

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