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us-caselaw-de

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Text Retrieval
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Languages:
English
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10K - 100K
Tags:
legal
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caselaw
delaware
us-law
state-law
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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
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opinion
de
IMO Grayson
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE IN THE MATTER OF THE § PETITION OF MARK GRAYSON § No. 66, 2020 FOR WRIT OF MANDAMUS § Submitted: April 15, 2020 Decided: May 22, 2020 Before SE...
cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/4536412
public-domain-edict-of-government
2026-06-30T00:00:00
de-del
2020-05-22T00:00:00
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opinion
de
Neil Wallace v. Mt. Poso Cogeneration Company, LLC
IN THE COURT OF CHANCERY OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE NEIL WALLACE, ) ) Plaintiff, ) ) v. ) C.A. No....
cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/4468323
public-domain-edict-of-government
2026-06-30T00:00:00
de-delch
2019-12-30T00:00:00
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opinion
de
In Re Howard Midstream Energy Partners, LLC
COURT OF CHANCERY OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE LORI W. WILL LEONARD L. WILLIAMS JUSTICE CENTER VICE CHANCELLOR 500 N. KING STREET, SUITE 1...
cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/4924538
public-domain-edict-of-government
2026-06-30T00:00:00
de-delch
2021-09-22T00:00:00
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opinion
de
Painter v. Painter
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE SAMUEL PAINTER,1 § § No. 262, 2021 Petitioner Below, § Appellant, § Court Below: Family Court ...
cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/4912325
public-domain-edict-of-government
2026-06-30T00:00:00
de-del
2021-09-17T00:00:00
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opinion
de
Johnson v. State
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE JONATHAN JOHNSON, § § Defendant Below, § No. 512, 2019 Appellant, § § Court Below—Superio...
cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/4536856
public-domain-edict-of-government
2026-06-30T00:00:00
de-del
2020-05-26T00:00:00
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opinion
de
Schoon v. Smith
RIDGELY, Justice. Appellant Richard W. Schoon is a director, but not a stockholder, of Troy Corporation, a privately held Delaware corporation. He filed a derivative action in the Court of Chancery on behalf of Troy, alleging breaches of fiduciary duties by his fellow directors. Schoon argued below that ...
cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/2197909
public-domain-edict-of-government
2026-06-30T00:00:00
de-del
2008-02-12T00:00:00
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opinion
de
State v. Culp
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE STATE OF DELAWARE, § § No. 249, 2016 Plaintiff Below, § Appellant, § Court Below: ...
cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/4106033
public-domain-edict-of-government
2026-06-30T00:00:00
de-del
2016-12-08T00:00:00
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opinion
de
AM Buyer, LLC v. Argosy Investment Partners IV, L.P.
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE AM BUYER LLC and § AM INTERMEDIATE PARENT, § No. 467, 2024 INC., § § Plaintiffs Below, § Appellants, ...
cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/11105964
public-domain-edict-of-government
2026-06-30T00:00:00
de-del
2025-07-23T00:00:00
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opinion
de
Davis v. State
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE LENNON K. DAVIS, § § No. 115, 2020 Defendant Below, § Appellant, § Court Below—Superior Court § ...
cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/4653710
public-domain-edict-of-government
2026-06-30T00:00:00
de-del
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opinion
de
Hartfield, Titus & Donnelly, LLC v. MarketAxess Holdings Inc.
" IN THE COURT OF CHANCERY OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE\n\nHARTFIELD, TITUS & DONNELLY, )(...TRUNCATED)
cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/11105965
public-domain-edict-of-government
2026-06-30T00:00:00
de-delch
2025-07-23T00:00:00
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Delaware Case Law

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 23,480 Delaware appellate opinion documents from the public record, sliced from the Free Law Project / CourtListener bulk export of 2026-06-30.

Court coverage (3 court ids, explicit allowlist — never prefix-matched): del, delch, delorphct.

Lead opinions and separate opinions; documents under 1 characters excluded. Slice sha256 be7d8ca6b221c8f3143498ca139e09f4eb3d9a2107b0ff16ed12f44c745a2599 (also in slice.manifest.json).

Composition

Measured on this exact slice: 17,449 documents (74.3%) carry 2,000+ characters of text, 2,309 (9.8%) carry 200-1,999, and 3,722 (15.9%) 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.

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from datasets import load_dataset
ds = load_dataset("docketx/us-caselaw-de")

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