Datasets:
id string | doc_type string | jurisdiction string | title string | text string | source string | license string | retrieved_at timestamp[s] | citation string | court string | date timestamp[s] | extra dict |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
22b51cd9acae7f33 | opinion | dc | Gayden v. United States |
996 A.2d 848 (2010)
GAYDEN
v.
U.S.
No. 07-CF-556.
District of Columbia Court of Appeals.
June 24, 2010.
Decision Without Published Opinion Affirmed.
| cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/2098444 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | dc-dc | 2010-06-24T00:00:00 | {
"cl_opinion_id": "2098444",
"cluster_id": "2098444",
"opinion_type": "010combined",
"text_kind": "html_with_citations",
"source_label": "courtlistener"
} | |
7928a8ecbbd7bfbe | opinion | dc | Holbrook v. District of Columbia | Notice: This opinion is subject to formal revision before publication in the
Atlantic and Maryland Reporters. Users are requested to notify the Clerk of the
Court of any formal errors so that corrections may be made before the bound
volumes go to press.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA COURT OF APPEALS
... | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/4924547 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | dc-dc | 2021-09-23T00:00:00 | {
"cl_opinion_id": "4924547",
"cluster_id": "5106167",
"opinion_type": "010combined",
"text_kind": "plain_text",
"source_label": "courtlistener"
} | |
2ced0172abccbca0 | opinion | dc | Graham v. T.T. | Notice: This opinion is subject to formal revision before publication in the Atlantic
and Maryland Reporters. Users are requested to notify the Clerk of the Court of
any formal errors so that corrections may be made before the bound volumes go
to press.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA COURT OF APPEALS
... | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/11209323 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | dc-dc | 2025-11-26T00:00:00 | {
"cl_opinion_id": "11209323",
"cluster_id": "10742738",
"opinion_type": "010combined",
"text_kind": "plain_text",
"source_label": "courtlistener"
} | |
8ac60031d61490ab | opinion | dc | VILEAN STEVENS & IKE PROPHET v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH | District of Columbia
Court of Appeals
No. 14-CV-315
DEC 15 2016
VILEAN STEVENS & IKE PROPHET,
Appellants,
v. ... | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/4107492 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | dc-dc | 2016-12-15T00:00:00 | {
"cl_opinion_id": "4107492",
"cluster_id": "4330231",
"opinion_type": "010combined",
"text_kind": "plain_text",
"source_label": "courtlistener"
} | |
866a52ee3f35f427 | opinion | dc | ALEXANDER HUGHES v. UNITED STATES | " District of Columbia\n Court of Appeals\n(...TRUNCATED) | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/4107493 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | dc-dc | 2016-12-15T00:00:00 | {"cl_opinion_id":"4107493","cluster_id":"4330232","opinion_type":"010combined","text_kind":"plain_te(...TRUNCATED) | |
08641a179b69625a | opinion | dc | IN RE KELLY A. CROSS | "Notice: This opinion is subject to formal revision before publication in the\nAtlantic and Maryland(...TRUNCATED) | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/4153187 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | dc-dc | 2017-03-16T00:00:00 | {"cl_opinion_id":"4153187","cluster_id":"4375934","opinion_type":"010combined","text_kind":"plain_te(...TRUNCATED) | |
857149eff665040e | opinion | dc | Nicklin v. The Stonesdale Unit Owners' Ass'n | "Notice: This opinion is subject to formal revision before publication in the\nAtlantic and Maryland(...TRUNCATED) | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/9917016 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | dc-dc | 2024-01-11T00:00:00 | {"cl_opinion_id":"9917016","cluster_id":"9459191","opinion_type":"010combined","text_kind":"plain_te(...TRUNCATED) | |
6db50374a9c8170b | opinion | dc | Beatley v. District of Columbia | "Notice: This opinion is subject to formal revision before publication in the\nAtlantic and Maryland(...TRUNCATED) | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/9917017 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | dc-dc | 2024-01-11T00:00:00 | {"cl_opinion_id":"9917017","cluster_id":"9459192","opinion_type":"010combined","text_kind":"plain_te(...TRUNCATED) | |
4664f478bfb67dfc | opinion | dc | In re A.T.J. & L.D.J. | "Notice: This opinion is subject to formal revision before publication in the\nAtlantic and Maryland(...TRUNCATED) | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/4669070 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | dc-dc | 2021-03-18T00:00:00 | {"cl_opinion_id":"4669070","cluster_id":"4865291","opinion_type":"010combined","text_kind":"plain_te(...TRUNCATED) | |
0dbcc291f854be8a | opinion | dc | Ehab Asal v. Estate of Mina | "Notice: This opinion is subject to formal revision before publication in the\nAtlantic and Maryland(...TRUNCATED) | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/4669072 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | dc-dc | 2021-03-18T00:00:00 | {"cl_opinion_id":"4669072","cluster_id":"4865293","opinion_type":"010combined","text_kind":"plain_te(...TRUNCATED) |
District of Columbia Case Law
Full text of 26,001 District of Columbia 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):
dc.
Lead opinions and separate opinions; documents under 1 characters excluded.
Slice sha256 c3e038ae81e8f4dcb24e9ffa8f5ca46a951772d1da4e897801d714d62cc77e3b (also in slice.manifest.json).
Composition
Measured on this exact slice: 21,138 documents (81.3%) carry 2,000+
characters of text, 2,338 (9.0%) carry 200-1,999, and 2,525
(9.7%) 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-dc")
Part of the DocketRouter legal corpora: https://huggingface.co/docketx
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