Datasets:

docketx
/

us-caselaw-sd

license: cc0-1.0
language:
  - en
task_categories:
  - text-retrieval
  - text-generation
size_categories:
  - 10K<n<100K
configs:
  - config_name: default
    data_files: data/*.jsonl.gz
tags:
  - legal
  - law
  - caselaw
  - south-dakota
  - us-law
  - state-law
  - court-opinions
  - public-domain
  - rag
  - retrieval
  - legal-nlp
  - legal-research
pretty_name: South Dakota Case Law

South Dakota 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 25,593 South Dakota 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): sd.

Lead opinions and separate opinions; documents under 1 characters excluded. Slice sha256 7a175fea94ee27bfb52aa8b32b3596121339f5f08e98314641b76568a8b80c23 (also in slice.manifest.json).

Composition

Measured on this exact slice: 21,903 documents (85.6%) carry 2,000+ characters of text, 2,815 (11.0%) carry 200-1,999, and 875 (3.4%) 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-sd")

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