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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
fca60b2f770f6768 | opinion | sc | State v. John Joseph Erb | The Supreme Court of South Carolina
The State, Respondent,
v.
John Joseph Erb, Petitioner.
Appellate Case No. 2024-001518
ORDER
The petition for rehearing is granted. We dispense with further briefing and
argument. The... | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/11209378 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | sc-sc | 2025-11-26T00:00:00 | {
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"cluster_id": "10742793",
"opinion_type": "010combined",
"text_kind": "plain_text",
"source_label": "courtlistener"
} | |
fb8ac1b4eff8b64b | opinion | sc | April Jones v. Tim Ringer | THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA
In The Court of Appeals
April Jones, Respondent,
v.
Tim Ringer, individually and as employee/agent of Wal-
Mart Stores Inc. d/b/a Wal-Mart Store #630, Wal-Mart
Stores, Inc., and Wal-Mart Stores East, L.P., Defendants,
of which Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. and Wal-Mart Stores
E... | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/11209380 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | sc-scctapp | 2025-11-26T00:00:00 | {
"cl_opinion_id": "11209380",
"cluster_id": "10742795",
"opinion_type": "010combined",
"text_kind": "plain_text",
"source_label": "courtlistener"
} | |
65775eec37548bcc | opinion | sc | Shawonder Scott v.Curtis McAlister | THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA
In The Court of Appeals
Shawonder Scott, Appellant,
v.
Curtis McAlister, Acquana McAlister, Norma L. Cyrus,
Tax Collector for Williamsburg County, the County of
Williamsburg, an Unincorporated Subdivision of the
State of South Carolina, Hartwell Pendergrass, Sr., and
Hat... | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/6321397 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | sc-scctapp | 2022-03-02T00:00:00 | {
"cl_opinion_id": "6321397",
"cluster_id": "6449286",
"opinion_type": "010combined",
"text_kind": "plain_text",
"source_label": "courtlistener"
} | |
dd44e12ffe799dbf | opinion | sc | South Carolina Department of Social Services v. Polite |
391 S.C. 275 (2011)
705 S.E.2d 78
SOUTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES, Appellant,
v.
Donellivin POLITE, Respondent.
No. 4774.
Court of Appeals of South Carolina.
Submitted April 1, 2010.
Decided January 19, 2011.
*276 Paul Fredrick LeBarron, of Charleston, for Appellant.
... | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/2398825 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | sc-scctapp | 2011-01-19T00:00:00 | {
"cl_opinion_id": "2398825",
"cluster_id": "2398825",
"opinion_type": "010combined",
"text_kind": "html_with_citations",
"source_label": "courtlistener"
} | |
5b3581540b23225d | opinion | sc | Frampton v. SCDNR | THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA
In The Court of Appeals
Chisolm Frampton, Employee, Appellant,
v.
S.C. Department of Natural Resources, Employer, and
S.C. State Accident Fund, Carrier, Respondents.
Appellate Case No.... | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/4637240 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | sc-scctapp | 2020-11-18T00:00:00 | {
"cl_opinion_id": "4637240",
"cluster_id": "4833461",
"opinion_type": "010combined",
"text_kind": "plain_text",
"source_label": "courtlistener"
} | |
85799573ecbcfd1a | opinion | sc | Arrowpointe Federal Credit Union v. Bailey | THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA
In The Court of Appeals
ArrowPointe Federal Credit Union, Respondent,
v.
Jimmy Eugene Bailey; Laura Jean Bailey; and U.S. Bank
National Association not in its individual capacity but
solely in its capacity as Indenture Trustee for WVUE
2015-1, Defendants,
Of which U... | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/4637241 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | sc-scctapp | 2020-11-18T00:00:00 | {
"cl_opinion_id": "4637241",
"cluster_id": "4833462",
"opinion_type": "010combined",
"text_kind": "plain_text",
"source_label": "courtlistener"
} | |
18441923f371db9b | opinion | sc | Sloan v. School Dist. of Greenville County |
CONNOR, Judge:
Edward D. Sloan, Jr., individually, and as a.citizen, resident, taxpayer, and registered elector of Greenville County, and on behalf of all others similarly situated, brought this declaratory judgment action against the School District of Greenville County and the individual members of the... | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/1396678 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | sc-scctapp | 2000-08-21T00:00:00 | {
"cl_opinion_id": "1396678",
"cluster_id": "1396678",
"opinion_type": "010combined",
"text_kind": "html_with_citations",
"source_label": "courtlistener"
} | |
0067576589ce05ce | opinion | sc | State v. Terry Gridine | THIS OPINION HAS NO PRECEDENTIAL VALUE. IT SHOULD NOT BE
CITED OR RELIED ON AS PRECEDENT IN ANY PROCEEDING
EXCEPT AS PROVIDED BY RULE 268(d)(2), SCACR.
THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA
In The Supreme Court
The State, Respondent,
v.
... | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/11209379 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | sc-sc | 2025-11-26T00:00:00 | {
"cl_opinion_id": "11209379",
"cluster_id": "10742794",
"opinion_type": "010combined",
"text_kind": "plain_text",
"source_label": "courtlistener"
} | |
e4b43b2b31e1da0b | opinion | sc | The Kitchen Planners v. Friedman | " THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA\n In The Court of Appeals\n\(...TRUNCATED) | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/4638756 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | sc-scctapp | 2020-12-02T00:00:00 | {"cl_opinion_id":"4638756","cluster_id":"4834977","opinion_type":"010combined","text_kind":"plain_te(...TRUNCATED) | |
4b79bbe6ec60e167 | opinion | sc | State v. Young | " THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA\n In The Court of Appeals\n\(...TRUNCATED) | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/4654896 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | sc-scctapp | 2021-01-13T00:00:00 | {"cl_opinion_id":"4654896","cluster_id":"4851117","opinion_type":"010combined","text_kind":"plain_te(...TRUNCATED) |
South Carolina 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 62,793 South Carolina 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):
sc, scctapp.
Lead opinions and separate opinions; documents under 1 characters excluded.
Slice sha256 d73f339a0d9d8c5883faa5f7832b66c661336a389f895a57743d2b41ba2d06ef (also in slice.manifest.json).
Composition
Measured on this exact slice: 49,346 documents (78.6%) carry 2,000+
characters of text, 12,595 (20.1%) carry 200-1,999, and 852
(1.4%) 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-sc")
Part of the DocketRouter legal corpora: https://huggingface.co/docketx
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