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us-caselaw-vt

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
c79ea4c54588214f	opinion	vt	W.H. v. Department for Children and Families	NOTICE: This opinion is subject to motions for reargument under V.R.A.P. 40 as well as formal revision before publication in the Vermont Reports. Readers are requested to notify the Reporter of Decisions by email at: JUD.Reporter@vermont.gov or by mail at: Vermont Supreme Court, 109 State Street, Montpelier, Vermont 05...	cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/4588455	public-domain-edict-of-government	2026-06-30T00:00:00	vt-vt	2020-11-20T00:00:00	{ "cl_opinion_id": "4588455", "cluster_id": "4808108", "opinion_type": "010combined", "text_kind": "plain_text", "source_label": "courtlistener" }
1397f28c19516dac	opinion	vt	In Re Commercial Airfield	Appellant Edward V Peet owns an airport in Cornwall, Vermont. Due to certain improvements to his airport and associated flight activities, the District Environmental Commission informed him that he needed to apply for a permit pursuant to 10 V.S.A. §§ 6001-6092 (“Act 250”). Appellant objected to this requiremen...	cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/2071349	public-domain-edict-of-government	2026-06-30T00:00:00	vt-vt	2000-01-27T00:00:00	{ "cl_opinion_id": "2071349", "cluster_id": "2071349", "opinion_type": "010combined", "text_kind": "html_with_citations", "source_label": "courtlistener" }
b40cf53221ff8ed4	opinion	vt	Grievance of Cronan	Mahady, J. The principal issue in this appeal from the Vermont Labor Relations Board concerns the proper construction to be given to the “call in” provision of the State Police Unit Agreement in effect from July 1, 1982, to June 30, 1984. The Board accepted the position of the State and held that the pro...	cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/2072428	public-domain-edict-of-government	2026-06-30T00:00:00	vt-vt	1989-05-19T00:00:00	{ "cl_opinion_id": "2072428", "cluster_id": "2072428", "opinion_type": "010combined", "text_kind": "html_with_citations", "source_label": "courtlistener" }
4612c877168242c0	opinion	vt	State v. Patricia Kane	ENTRY ORDER 2016 VT 121 SUPREME COURT DOCKET NO. 2016-289 NOVEMBER TERM, 2016 State of Vermont } APPEALED FROM: ...	cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/4104084	public-domain-edict-of-government	2026-06-30T00:00:00	vt-vt	2016-11-22T00:00:00	{ "cl_opinion_id": "4104084", "cluster_id": "4326823", "opinion_type": "010combined", "text_kind": "plain_text", "source_label": "courtlistener" }
f9c37326fa2aaf8a	opinion	vt	Durant v. Pratt	The opinion of the court was delivered by Taft, J. This case was heard on a master’s report. But one question is made in the case, and that is, whether there is more than one hundred dollars due the defendant, J. J. Pratt, under the mortgage dated May 31, 1872. The master reported that a valid claim did exist ...	cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/6581949	public-domain-edict-of-government	2026-06-30T00:00:00	vt-vt	1882-10-15T00:00:00	{ "cl_opinion_id": "6581949", "cluster_id": "6701901", "opinion_type": "020lead", "text_kind": "html_with_citations", "source_label": "courtlistener" }
652d28df62580131	opinion	vt	In re D.S. and W.S., Juveniles	NOTICE: This opinion is subject to motions for reargument under V.R.A.P. 40 as well as formal revision before publication in the Vermont Reports. Readers are requested to notify the Reporter of Decisions by email at: JUD.Reporter@vermont.gov or by mail at: Vermont Supreme Court, 109 State Street, Montpelier, Vermont 05...	cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/4107927	public-domain-edict-of-government	2026-06-30T00:00:00	vt-vt	2016-12-16T00:00:00	{ "cl_opinion_id": "4107927", "cluster_id": "4330666", "opinion_type": "010combined", "text_kind": "plain_text", "source_label": "courtlistener" }
d11b86e86cff0594	opinion	vt	State v. Mills	Dooley, J. Each of these four criminal cases was decided adversely to defendant by a three-justice panel convened pursuant to V.R.A.E 33.1. Defendants now request that the full Court vacate the decisions, arguing that judicial action by less than a full complement of five justices of the Supreme Court is...	cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/2071649	public-domain-edict-of-government	2026-06-30T00:00:00	vt-vt	1998-01-02T00:00:00	{ "cl_opinion_id": "2071649", "cluster_id": "2071649", "opinion_type": "010combined", "text_kind": "html_with_citations", "source_label": "courtlistener" }
a61b1ed97e1c3541	opinion	vt	William Pettersen v. Monaghan Safar Ducham PLLC	NOTICE: This opinion is subject to motions for reargument under V.R.A.P. 40 as well as formal revision before publication in the Vermont Reports. Readers are requested to notify the Reporter of Decisions by email at: JUD.Reporter@vermont.gov or by mail at: Vermont Supreme Court, 109 State Street, Montpelier, Vermont 05...	cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/4669569	public-domain-edict-of-government	2026-06-30T00:00:00	vt-vt	2021-03-19T00:00:00	{ "cl_opinion_id": "4669569", "cluster_id": "4865790", "opinion_type": "010combined", "text_kind": "plain_text", "source_label": "courtlistener" }
9324e42f0e522410	opinion	vt	Meghan Forrett v. Orion Stone	NOTICE: This opinion is subject to motions for reargument under V.R.A.P. 40 as well as formal revision before publication in the Vermont Reports. Readers are requested to notify the Reporter of Decisions by email at: JUD.Reporter@vermont.gov or by mail at: Vermont Supreme Court, 109 State Street, Montpelier, Vermont 05...	cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/4669570	public-domain-edict-of-government	2026-06-30T00:00:00	vt-vt	2021-03-19T00:00:00	{ "cl_opinion_id": "4669570", "cluster_id": "4865791", "opinion_type": "010combined", "text_kind": "plain_text", "source_label": "courtlistener" }
3769d2224834a263	opinion	vt	State v. Scott Miglorie Lafaso	"NOTICE: This opinion is subject to motions for reargument under V.R.A.P. 40 as well as formal\nrevi(...TRUNCATED)	cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/4655908	public-domain-edict-of-government	2026-06-30T00:00:00	vt-vt	2021-01-29T00:00:00	{"cl_opinion_id":"4655908","cluster_id":"4852129","opinion_type":"010combined","text_kind":"plain_te(...TRUNCATED)

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Vermont 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 27,714 Vermont 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): vt.

Lead opinions and separate opinions; documents under 1 characters excluded. Slice sha256 fe3a9be7199576ddc3f528267e7c8bd130447c959769230a7117ca7d4e4126b3 (also in slice.manifest.json).

Composition

Measured on this exact slice: 22,712 documents (82.0%) carry 2,000+ characters of text, 3,015 (10.9%) carry 200-1,999, and 1,987 (7.2%) 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-vt")

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