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us-caselaw-ct

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
bc9bf51f90f00b98	opinion	ct	Lime Rock Park, LLC v. Planning & Zoning Commission	*********************************************** The “officially released” date that appears near the be- ginning of each opinion is the date the opinion will be pub- lished in the Connecticut Law Journal or the date it was released as a slip opinion. The operative date for the be- ginning of all time periods for fi...	cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/4588325	public-domain-edict-of-government	2026-06-30T00:00:00	ct-conn	2020-05-22T00:00:00	{ "cl_opinion_id": "4588325", "cluster_id": "4807978", "opinion_type": "010combined", "text_kind": "plain_text", "source_label": "courtlistener" }
bb1fab0974f8cc53	opinion	ct	State v. Vilchel	" \n \n \n \n Opinion\n \n \n \n HARPER, J.\n \n \n The defendant, Ignacio Vilchel, was convi(...TRUNCATED)	cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/2113602	public-domain-edict-of-government	2026-06-30T00:00:00	ct-connappct	2009-02-03T00:00:00	{"cl_opinion_id":"2113602","cluster_id":"2113602","opinion_type":"010combined","text_kind":"html_wit(...TRUNCATED)
34a0a717e76797ef	opinion	ct	State v. Moulton	" \n \n \n The petition by the state of Connecticut for certification for appeal from the Appellate(...TRUNCATED)	cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/2097911	public-domain-edict-of-government	2026-06-30T00:00:00	ct-conn	2010-06-24T00:00:00	{"cl_opinion_id":"2097911","cluster_id":"2097911","opinion_type":"010combined","text_kind":"html_wit(...TRUNCATED)
87293c8c230c2eb7	opinion	ct	City of Norwich v. Town of Lebanon	" \n Grillo, J. \n This appeal involves a dispute between the plaintiff city of Norwich 1 and the d(...TRUNCATED)	cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/7838954	public-domain-edict-of-government	2026-06-30T00:00:00	ct-conn	1984-06-05T00:00:00	{"cl_opinion_id":"7838954","cluster_id":"7891854","opinion_type":"020lead","text_kind":"html_with_ci(...TRUNCATED)
63b55833c61ebe74	opinion	ct	Jimenez v. Commissioner of Correction	"******************************************************\n The ‘‘officially released’’ date (...TRUNCATED)	cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/4104726	public-domain-edict-of-government	2026-06-30T00:00:00	ct-connappct	2016-12-13T00:00:00	{"cl_opinion_id":"4104726","cluster_id":"4327465","opinion_type":"010combined","text_kind":"plain_te(...TRUNCATED)
1b9fd44f9db07c5a	opinion	ct	Bloch v. Callaghan	"******************************************************\n The ‘‘officially released’’ date (...TRUNCATED)	cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/4104728	public-domain-edict-of-government	2026-06-30T00:00:00	ct-connappct	2016-12-13T00:00:00	{"cl_opinion_id":"4104728","cluster_id":"4327467","opinion_type":"010combined","text_kind":"plain_te(...TRUNCATED)
5b8bbd048c21b6c2	opinion	ct	In re Jayce O.	"******************************************************\n The ‘‘officially released’’ date (...TRUNCATED)	cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/4105897	public-domain-edict-of-government	2026-06-30T00:00:00	ct-conn	2016-12-08T00:00:00	{"cl_opinion_id":"4105897","cluster_id":"4328636","opinion_type":"010combined","text_kind":"plain_te(...TRUNCATED)
e86962d8a70744e1	opinion	ct	Morin v. Manson	" \n Grillo, J. \n This appeal is from the judgment of the trial court denying the relief requested (...TRUNCATED)	cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/7838895	public-domain-edict-of-government	2026-06-30T00:00:00	ct-conn	1984-04-03T00:00:00	{"cl_opinion_id":"7838895","cluster_id":"7891797","opinion_type":"020lead","text_kind":"html_with_ci(...TRUNCATED)
31f2a5147a4a85e9	opinion	ct	Berger v. Tonken	" \n Peters, J. \n The question presented by this appeal is whether the employment security board of(...TRUNCATED)	cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/7838896	public-domain-edict-of-government	2026-06-30T00:00:00	ct-conn	1984-04-03T00:00:00	{"cl_opinion_id":"7838896","cluster_id":"7891798","opinion_type":"020lead","text_kind":"html_with_ci(...TRUNCATED)
2ba33e37804d8c35	opinion	ct	Aetna Life & Casualty v. Miscione of Connecticut, Inc.	" \n Per Curiam. \n This is an action to recover an additional premium for workers’ compensation i(...TRUNCATED)	cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/7838965	public-domain-edict-of-government	2026-06-30T00:00:00	ct-conn	1984-06-19T00:00:00	{"cl_opinion_id":"7838965","cluster_id":"7891862","opinion_type":"020lead","text_kind":"html_with_ci(...TRUNCATED)

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Connecticut Case Law

Full text of 43,535 Connecticut 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): conn, connappct.

Lead opinions; documents under 500 characters excluded. Slice sha256 2ac3cd319a39374bb15a61e865a4e44b09f53ccfb0d52ad5a31bb076df2e85e2 (also in slice.manifest.json).

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-ct")

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

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