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us-caselaw-ia

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
d69975907aa82cc6	opinion	ia	State of Iowa v. Thomas C. Casper	IN THE SUPREME COURT OF IOWA No. 19–0849 Submitted October 15, 2020—Filed November 20, 2020 STATE OF IOWA, Appellee, vs. THOMAS CHRISTOPHOR CASPER, Appellant. On review from the Iowa Court of Appeals. Appeal from the Iowa Distr...	cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/4588378	public-domain-edict-of-government	2026-06-30T00:00:00	ia-iowa	2020-11-20T00:00:00	{ "cl_opinion_id": "4588378", "cluster_id": "4808031", "opinion_type": "010combined", "text_kind": "plain_text", "source_label": "courtlistener" }
1b9b65e423aa0d4d	opinion	ia	State of Iowa v. Christopher Lee Roby Jr.	IN THE SUPREME COURT OF IOWA No. 19–0551 Submitted September 17, 2020—Filed November 20, 2020 STATE OF IOWA, Appellee, vs. CHRISTOPHER ROBY, Appellant. On review from the Iowa Court of Appeals. Appeal from the Iowa District Co...	cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/4588379	public-domain-edict-of-government	2026-06-30T00:00:00	ia-iowa	2020-11-20T00:00:00	{ "cl_opinion_id": "4588379", "cluster_id": "4808032", "opinion_type": "010combined", "text_kind": "plain_text", "source_label": "courtlistener" }
17fe6a3065fbbe01	opinion	ia	Iowa Supreme Court Attorney Disciplinary Board v. David Ebong Akpan	IN THE SUPREME COURT OF IOWA No. 20–0187 Submitted September 16, 2020—Filed November 20, 2020 IOWA SUPREME COURT ATTORNEY DISCIPLINARY BOARD, Complainant, vs. DAVID EBONG AKPAN, Respondent. On review of the report of the Iowa Supreme Court G...	cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/4588380	public-domain-edict-of-government	2026-06-30T00:00:00	ia-iowa	2020-11-20T00:00:00	{ "cl_opinion_id": "4588380", "cluster_id": "4808033", "opinion_type": "010combined", "text_kind": "plain_text", "source_label": "courtlistener" }
d9fdb837142f7ea0	opinion	ia	State of Iowa v. Gregory Michael Davis	IN THE SUPREME COURT OF IOWA No. 19–0214 Submitted October 14, 2020—Filed November 13, 2020 STATE OF IOWA, Appellee, vs. GREGORY MICHAEL DAVIS, Appellant. On review from the Iowa Court of Appeals. Appeal from the Iowa District C...	cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/4588381	public-domain-edict-of-government	2026-06-30T00:00:00	ia-iowa	2020-11-13T00:00:00	{ "cl_opinion_id": "4588381", "cluster_id": "4808034", "opinion_type": "010combined", "text_kind": "plain_text", "source_label": "courtlistener" }
47c611cb6f8ebcd5	opinion	ia	Stuart v. State Ex Rel. Jannings	" \n \n \n RAWLINGS, Justice.\n \n \n Debra Lee Stuart (defendant) takes permissive appeal from c(...TRUNCATED)	cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/2073191	public-domain-edict-of-government	2026-06-30T00:00:00	ia-iowa	1977-05-25T00:00:00	{"cl_opinion_id":"2073191","cluster_id":"2073191","opinion_type":"010combined","text_kind":"html_wit(...TRUNCATED)
0eb5183c2068c964	opinion	ia	A. C. Nelsen Auto Sales, Inc. v. Turner	" \n \n \n Mantz, J.\n \n \n Plaintiff’s suit is in replevin to secure possession of a certain (...TRUNCATED)	cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/2074065	public-domain-edict-of-government	2026-06-30T00:00:00	ia-iowa	1950-09-19T00:00:00	{"cl_opinion_id":"2074065","cluster_id":"2074065","opinion_type":"010combined","text_kind":"html_wit(...TRUNCATED)
571c1d63c6d96563	opinion	ia	Upon the Petition of Kent D. Langholz	" IN THE SUPREME COURT OF IOWA\n No. 15–0547\n\(...TRUNCATED)	cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/4104072	public-domain-edict-of-government	2026-06-30T00:00:00	ia-iowa	2016-12-02T00:00:00	{"cl_opinion_id":"4104072","cluster_id":"4326811","opinion_type":"010combined","text_kind":"plain_te(...TRUNCATED)
976d31f6c30b8b4e	opinion	ia	Iowa Supreme Court Attorney Disciplinary Board v. R. Scott Rhinehart	" IN THE SUPREME COURT OF IOWA\n No. 20–0824\n\n (...TRUNCATED)	cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/4653563	public-domain-edict-of-government	2026-06-30T00:00:00	ia-iowa	2021-01-08T00:00:00	{"cl_opinion_id":"4653563","cluster_id":"4849784","opinion_type":"010combined","text_kind":"plain_te(...TRUNCATED)
4e81dd52fea4d8b2	opinion	ia	State of Iowa v. Trekel Marquis Barker	" IN THE COURT OF APPEALS OF IOWA\n\n No. 18-17(...TRUNCATED)	cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/4470773	public-domain-edict-of-government	2026-06-30T00:00:00	ia-iowactapp	2020-01-09T00:00:00	{"cl_opinion_id":"4470773","cluster_id":"4693481","opinion_type":"010combined","text_kind":"plain_te(...TRUNCATED)
26f13fa51eab97be	opinion	ia	"Tyler Dix, Jason Cattell, Jimmy McCann, and Julie Eller v. Casey's General Stores, Inc. and Casey's(...TRUNCATED)	" IN THE COURT OF APPEALS OF IOWA\n\n No. 18-1464(...TRUNCATED)	cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/4470770	public-domain-edict-of-government	2026-06-30T00:00:00	ia-iowactapp	2020-01-09T00:00:00	{"cl_opinion_id":"4470770","cluster_id":"4693478","opinion_type":"010combined","text_kind":"plain_te(...TRUNCATED)

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Iowa Case Law

Full text of 72,409 Iowa 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): iowa, iowactapp.

Lead opinions; documents under 500 characters excluded. Slice sha256 9adfb81d97ab2201a3f3733252f6da459f4897e73c63c6f3055bbd7d79539d56 (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-ia")

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

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