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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
61275c6f84a9a0b9 | opinion | us | Sencibaugh v. United States | UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
EASTERN DISTRICT OF MISSOURI
SOUTHEASTERN DIVISION
TROY D. SENCIBAUGH, )
) ... | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/11103682 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | fed-district-moed | 2025-07-18T00:00:00 | {
"cl_opinion_id": "11103682",
"cluster_id": "10637095",
"opinion_type": "100trialcourt",
"text_kind": "plain_text",
"source_label": "courtlistener"
} | |
7ca005c8950bda37 | opinion | us | Maldonado v. MNS1 Express, Inc. | UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
EASTERN DISTRICT OF MISSOURI
SOUTHEASTERN DIVISION
JOSHUA MALDONADO, )
... | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/11103693 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | fed-district-moed | 2025-07-18T00:00:00 | {
"cl_opinion_id": "11103693",
"cluster_id": "10637106",
"opinion_type": "100trialcourt",
"text_kind": "plain_text",
"source_label": "courtlistener"
} | |
8c88705855194355 | opinion | us | Cross v. Plaskey | UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
EASTERN DISTRICT OF WISCONSIN
JAMES CROSS,
Plaintiff,
v. ... | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/11103698 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | fed-district-wied | 2025-07-18T00:00:00 | {
"cl_opinion_id": "11103698",
"cluster_id": "10637111",
"opinion_type": "100trialcourt",
"text_kind": "plain_text",
"source_label": "courtlistener"
} | |
96ec48611cfda6b9 | opinion | us | Amiblu Technology AS v. U.S. Composite Pipe South, LLC | UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
MIDDLE DISTRICT OF LOUISIANA
AMIBLU TECHNOLOGY AS
CIVIL ACTION
VERSUS ... | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/11103683 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | fed-district-lamd | 2025-07-18T00:00:00 | {
"cl_opinion_id": "11103683",
"cluster_id": "10637096",
"opinion_type": "100trialcourt",
"text_kind": "plain_text",
"source_label": "courtlistener"
} | |
4459398deb6cc623 | opinion | us | VAUGHN v. DUKE ENERGY CAROLINAS, LLC | IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE MIDDLE DISTRICT OF NORTH CAROLINA
CARL DAVIS VAUGHN, JR., )
)
Plaintiff, ) ... | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/11103684 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | fed-district-ncmd | 2025-07-18T00:00:00 | {
"cl_opinion_id": "11103684",
"cluster_id": "10637097",
"opinion_type": "100trialcourt",
"text_kind": "plain_text",
"source_label": "courtlistener"
} | |
bd0dd2d7625d288d | opinion | us | Manus v. Hayden | UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
)
SUSAN MANUS, )
)
Plaintiff, )
... | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/4536408 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | fed-district-dcd | 2020-05-23T00:00:00 | {
"cl_opinion_id": "4536408",
"cluster_id": "4756061",
"opinion_type": "010combined",
"text_kind": "plain_text",
"source_label": "courtlistener"
} | |
ce2ffc08b97be273 | opinion | us | McMullan v. Tanner | IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF MISSISSIPPI
SOUTHERN DIVISION
WILLIAM B. MCMULLAN PLAINTIFF
VERSUS ... | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/11103694 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | fed-district-mssd | 2025-07-18T00:00:00 | {
"cl_opinion_id": "11103694",
"cluster_id": "10637107",
"opinion_type": "100trialcourt",
"text_kind": "plain_text",
"source_label": "courtlistener"
} | |
c3d1b5f5ba928c30 | opinion | us | Christopher Kosachuk v. Thomas T. McClendon | IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE MIDDLE DISTRICT OF GEORGIA
MACON DIVISION
CHRISTOPHER KOSACHUK
App... | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/11209255 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | fed-district-gamd | 2025-11-17T00:00:00 | {
"cl_opinion_id": "11209255",
"cluster_id": "10742670",
"opinion_type": "100trialcourt",
"text_kind": "plain_text",
"source_label": "courtlistener"
} | |
741c353c7daf2474 | opinion | us | Milligan v. Cedars Leasing Co., LLC | CLERKS OFFICE U.S. DIST. COURT
AT CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA
FILED
IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT July 18, 2025
... | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/11103685 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | fed-district-vawd | 2025-07-18T00:00:00 | {
"cl_opinion_id": "11103685",
"cluster_id": "10637098",
"opinion_type": "100trialcourt",
"text_kind": "plain_text",
"source_label": "courtlistener"
} | |
3681b68b013d6838 | opinion | us | GALLOWAY v. DUDEK | " IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT \n FOR THE WESTERN DISTR(...TRUNCATED) | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/11103695 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | fed-district-pawd | 2025-07-18T00:00:00 | {"cl_opinion_id":"11103695","cluster_id":"10637108","opinion_type":"100trialcourt","text_kind":"plai(...TRUNCATED) |
U.S. District Courts 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 1,199,105 U.S. District Courts appellate opinion documents from the public record, sliced from the Free Law Project / CourtListener bulk export of 2026-06-30.
Court coverage (125 court ids, explicit allowlist — never prefix-matched):
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Lead opinions and separate opinions; documents under 1 characters excluded.
Slice sha256 ff1bd031a0b921e7e949dae85af67d00ac63a4ff3182e00f91dc01dab9a86aa6 (also in slice.manifest.json).
Composition
Measured on this exact slice: 1,172,382 documents (97.8%) carry 2,000+
characters of text, 24,805 (2.1%) carry 200-1,999, and 1,918
(0.2%) 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-fed-district")
Part of the DocketRouter legal corpora: https://huggingface.co/docketx
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