incrediblecrab/scotus-case-documents

Supreme Court of the United States: Case Documents

The document files that the Supreme Court's website lists under Case Documents in its footer, one config per collection, each row a file with the file itself, byte for byte, and its text. Nothing here is edited by hand, and no text is corrected, normalized or generated. The pipeline and its tests are in github.com/incrediblecrab/scotus-research-service-products, and this card is rendered from the collections' manifests in the same commit.

Collections

Config	Files	Size	Listed now	Last complete run	Status
orders-of-the-court	2,588	0.21 GB	2,588 of 2,590	2026-10-09T18:13:08Z	Orders of the Court: 2 listed files not stored
orders-by-circuit	521	28.7 MB	521 of 521	2026-10-09T18:13:42Z	Orders by Circuit: every listed file
granted-noted-cases-list	20	4.0 MB	20 of 20	2026-10-09T18:14:09Z	Granted/Noted Cases List: every listed file
journal	137	1.34 GB	137 of 137	2026-10-09T18:14:16Z	Journal: every listed file
original-jurisdiction-records-and-briefs	2,657	8.41 GB	2,657 of 2,660	2026-10-09T18:14:23Z	Original Jurisdiction Records & Briefs: 3 listed files not stored

Each collection's card, linked from its name, says what it holds and where the gaps are, which files failed and why, what is verbatim, and what each column means. Every config has the same columns.

Use

from datasets import load_dataset
ds = load_dataset("incrediblecrab/scotus-case-documents", "orders-of-the-court", split="train")

-- DuckDB, straight from the Hub, without the file bytes
SELECT id, term, date, docket, title, text_source FROM 'hf://datasets/incrediblecrab/scotus-case-documents/orders-of-the-court/data/*.parquet' WHERE listed ORDER BY date DESC LIMIT 10;

Files

• {collection}/data/{partition}.parquet: the collection's rows, sorted by id.
• {collection}/manifest.json: per partition, the row count, SHA-256 and summary counts; the files that failed and why; the listing pages read; the last 20 runs.
• {collection}/README.md: the collection's card.

Related datasets

• incrediblecrab/scotus-opinions: Opinions
• incrediblecrab/scotus-filing-and-rules: Filing & Rules
• incrediblecrab/scotus-oral-arguments: Oral Arguments
• incrediblecrab/scotus-news-media: News Media
• incrediblecrab/scotus-about: About
• incrediblecrab/scotus-cases: Cases, one row per docket in each term, assembled from the Opinions, Oral Arguments and Case Documents datasets and the Court's docket pages

License

• orders-of-the-court, orders-by-circuit, granted-noted-cases-list, journal: The Supreme Court's own pages and documents (including its opinions, orders, calendars, lists and journals, its rules, forms and guides, its press releases, media advisories and reports, and its About pages) are works of the United States Government, which are not subject to copyright in the United States (17 U.S.C. § 105). This card does not give legal advice; check the status of any document you rely on.
• original-jurisdiction-records-and-briefs: The collection holds the parties' filings in original cases (States, the United States and others), reports of special masters, and documents titled as the Court's own, digitized by the Supreme Court Library. Works of the United States Government are not subject to copyright in the United States (17 U.S.C. § 105); filings by States and other parties may not be such works, and this dataset makes no claim about the status of any document in it. This card does not give legal advice.

The pipeline's code is under the MIT License (github.com/incrediblecrab/scotus-research-service-products).