card: 697,701 statute sections across 17 states

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+---
+license: cc0-1.0
+language: [en]
+task_categories: [text-retrieval, question-answering]
+size_categories: [100K<n<1M]
+tags: [legal, law, statutes, state-law, us-law, public-domain, rag, legal-nlp]
+pretty_name: US State Statutes (verbatim)
+configs:
+- config_name: all
+  data_files: data/*/statutes.jsonl.gz
+  default: true
+---
+
+# US State Statutes — held word for word
+
+**697,701 statute sections** across **17 states**, each section as its legislature publishes it,
+with the URL it was taken from. Statutes are the law a court applies; a paraphrase is not usable in a
+filing, so the text here is verbatim.
+
+| state | sections | codes |
+|---|--:|---|
+| California (`ca`) | 162,431 | `Government Code`, `Health and Safety Code`, `Education Code`, `Business and Professions Code`, `Water Code` … |
+| Texas (`tx`) | 122,681 | `Special District Local Laws Code`, `Government Code`, `Health & Safety Code`, `Insurance Code`, `Occupations Code` … |
+| New Jersey (`nj`) | 56,003 | `New Jersey Statutes (General and Permanent Statutes, official unannotated text)` |
+| Washington (`wa`) | 51,174 | `Revised Code of Washington` |
+| Maine (`me`) | 45,774 | `Maine Revised Statutes` |
+| Virginia (`va`) | 33,082 | `Code of Virginia Title 15.2 (Counties, Cities and Towns)`, `Code of Virginia Title 38.2 (Insurance)`, `Code of Virginia Title 46.2 (Motor Vehicles)`, `Code of Virginia Title 58.1 (Taxation)`, `Code of Virginia Title 2.2 (Administration of Government)` … |
+| North Carolina (`nc`) | 31,706 | `North Carolina General Statutes` |
+| Kansas (`ks`) | 29,265 | `Kansas Statutes Annotated` |
+| Utah (`ut`) | 28,311 | `Utah Code` |
+| North Dakota (`nd`) | 25,269 | `North Dakota Century Code` |
+| Florida (`fl`) | 24,993 | `Florida Statutes ch. 627 (Title XXXVII)`, `Florida Statutes ch. 626 (Title XXXVII)`, `Florida Statutes ch. 403 (Title XXIX)`, `Florida Statutes ch. 316 (Title XXIII)`, `Florida Statutes ch. 607 (Title XXXVI)` … |
+| Idaho (`id`) | 21,784 | `Idaho Code` |
+| Alaska (`ak`) | 20,205 | `Alaska Statutes` |
+| Wisconsin (`wi`) | 14,534 | `Wisconsin Statutes`, `Wisconsin Rules of Civil Procedure (statutory)` |
+| Minnesota (`mn`) | 13,318 | `Minnesota Statutes ch. 609`, `Minnesota Statutes ch. 144`, `Minnesota Statutes ch. 469`, `Minnesota Statutes ch. 473`, `Minnesota Statutes ch. 148` … |
+| Illinois (`il`) | 10,412 | `Illinois Compiled Statutes` |
+| New York (`ny`) | 6,759 | `Became A Law`, `General Business Law`, `Consolidated Laws of New York (BNK)`, `Agriculture And Markets Law`, `County Law` … |
+
+## The record
+
+`id`, `level` (`state`), `jurisdiction`, `code`, `section`, `citation`, `title`, `text` (verbatim),
+`source` (the URL), `license`, `retrieved_at`, `extra`.
+
+## Load it
+
+```python
+from datasets import load_dataset
+ds = load_dataset("docketx/us-statutes")                     # all states
+ca = ds["train"].filter(lambda r: r["jurisdiction"] == "ca") # one state
+```
+
+## Coverage, stated honestly
+
+These are the states whose statutes we have verified against a live official source, with the structure
+proven by extracting a real section before any harvest ran. A state missing from this table is one we
+have **not yet verified** — in several cases because the state licensed its code to a commercial
+publisher and no official machine-readable source exists. It is never a state whose law we hold and
+withheld. Coverage grows as each state clears that check.
+
+Public-domain government works. Part of the [DocketX](https://docketx.ai) open legal corpus, alongside
+`docketx/us-caselaw` (10.8M opinions), `docketx/court-rules` (14,272 rules),
+`docketx/oral-arguments-us` and `docketx/us-judges`.