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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
389134fe9ee5f63a | opinion | ks | Henry Ex Rel. Henry v. Bauder |
213 Kan. 751 (1974)
518 P.2d 362
TERRY A. HENRY, By and Through her Father and next Friend, KENNYTH HENRY, Appellant,
v.
THOMAS W. BAUDER, By and Through his Father and next Friend, THOMAS M. BAUDER, Appellee.
No. 47,101
Supreme Court of Kansas.
Opinion filed January 26, 1974.
Michae... | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/1128998 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | ks-kan | 1974-01-26T00:00:00 | {
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"text_kind": "html_with_citations",
"source_label": "courtlistener"
} | |
316dd70d16f4573c | opinion | ks | State v. Smith |
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Johnston, J.:
1. Bill of excepn™partUof record. The questions principally discussed upon this appeal cannot be considered here, for the reason that no valid bill of exceptions is found in the record. A paper purporting to be one is attached to the transcript, but it is... | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/7887120 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | ks-kan | 1888-01-15T00:00:00 | {
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"source_label": "courtlistener"
} | |
821468239d1353dc | opinion | ks | Sprague v. Missouri Pacific Railway Co. |
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Johnston, J.:
S. Sprague brought this action in the district court of Cloud county against the Missouri Pacific Railway *348 Company, alleging, in substance, that the defendant was a common carrier, and that on or about the 2d day of March, 1883, for a valuable consider... | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/7886611 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | ks-kan | 1885-07-15T00:00:00 | {
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} | |
3130a2fec36eaeb4 | opinion | ks | Durein v. Pontious |
*359 The opinion of the court was delivered by
Horton, C. J.:
This was an action for damages for injury to the means of support of plaintiffs below — defendants in error— arising from the sale and gift of intoxicating liquors to their father, Elias Pontious, alleged to have been sold and given to him by defenda... | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/7886612 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | ks-kan | 1885-07-15T00:00:00 | {
"cl_opinion_id": "7886612",
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"source_label": "courtlistener"
} | |
b32e80f9382dde97 | opinion | ks | Hazen v. Rounsaville |
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Johnston, J.:
In an action of ejectment brought by William B. Hazen against Harvey M. Bouusaville, it was found and adjudged that Hazen was the owner and entitled to the possession of lots Nos. 3.85 and 387 Taylor street, in the city of Topeka. The judgment was brought t... | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/7886743 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | ks-kan | 1886-01-15T00:00:00 | {
"cl_opinion_id": "7886743",
"cluster_id": "7936286",
"opinion_type": "020lead",
"text_kind": "html_with_citations",
"source_label": "courtlistener"
} | |
1813c7154059f091 | opinion | ks | Kansas City & Emporia Railroad v. Kregelo |
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Horton, C. J.:
J. L. Kregelo is the owner of a farm containing a quarter-section of land in Lyon county' — 'being the southwest quarter of section 17, township 19, range 12. A right-of-way was condemned and appropriated by the Kansas City & Emporia railroad company a... | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/7886390 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | ks-kan | 1884-07-15T00:00:00 | {
"cl_opinion_id": "7886390",
"cluster_id": "7935942",
"opinion_type": "020lead",
"text_kind": "html_with_citations",
"source_label": "courtlistener"
} | |
1dfa59c04d5ca7a0 | opinion | ks | State v. Blackman |
Hokton, C. J.:
I concur in the affirmance of the judgment of the trial court, and of all that is stated in the foregoing opinion.
When the case was called, the defendant waived arraignment, pleaded not guilty, and went to trial upon the merits of the action. No objections were taken to the issuance of the warran... | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/7886392 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | ks-kan | 1884-07-15T00:00:00 | {
"cl_opinion_id": "7886392",
"cluster_id": "7935943",
"opinion_type": "030concurrence",
"text_kind": "html_with_citations",
"source_label": "courtlistener"
} | |
cd7639ba3112e64c | opinion | ks | Morrissey v. Donohue |
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Valentine, J.:
The only question involved in this case is, whether the north 49 feet of lot 1, in block 9, of Clark & Rees’s addition to the city of Leavenworth, is, and has been since September 16, 1875, a part of the homestead of the defendant, James Donohue? The f... | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/7886397 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | ks-kan | 1884-07-15T00:00:00 | {
"cl_opinion_id": "7886397",
"cluster_id": "7935948",
"opinion_type": "020lead",
"text_kind": "html_with_citations",
"source_label": "courtlistener"
} | |
2519196b6a79837c | opinion | ks | Krutz v. Chandler |
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Valentine, J.:
This was an action in the nature of ejectment, brought by George B. Chandler against William G. Krutz and others, to recover all that portion of the southwest quarter of section 4, in township 17, south, of range 23, east, and lying east of Bull creek, exc... | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/7886400 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | ks-kan | 1884-07-15T00:00:00 | {
"cl_opinion_id": "7886400",
"cluster_id": "7935951",
"opinion_type": "020lead",
"text_kind": "html_with_citations",
"source_label": "courtlistener"
} | |
337296834b5c3769 | opinion | ks | Sandwich Manufacturing Co. v. Nicholson |
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Valentine, J.:
On June 23, 1881, T. H. Nicholson purchased of the Sandwich Manufacturing Company, a corporation, through J. H. Caddy, its agent at Spring Hill, Kansas, a reaper and a binder. The reaper and binder were- at Spring Hill at the time, and Nicholson examined t... | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/7886402 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | ks-kan | 1884-07-15T00:00:00 | {
"cl_opinion_id": "7886402",
"cluster_id": "7935953",
"opinion_type": "020lead",
"text_kind": "html_with_citations",
"source_label": "courtlistener"
} | |
96eac002670e7c38 | opinion | ks | Hathaway v. Davis & Rankin |
*694 The opinion of the court was delivered by
Valentine, J.:
The questions involved in this case are simply with reference to the validity and priority of certain liens claimed to exist upon certain real estate, buildings, fixtures and machinery, belonging to the firm of Faulkner & Lyman. The facts are sub... | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/7886405 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | ks-kan | 1884-07-15T00:00:00 | {
"cl_opinion_id": "7886405",
"cluster_id": "7935955",
"opinion_type": "020lead",
"text_kind": "html_with_citations",
"source_label": "courtlistener"
} | |
83ba2b00724c7f3a | opinion | ks | Carey v. Reeves |
*721 The opinion of the court was delivered by
Valentine, J.:
The only questions involved in this case are: First, has the district court jurisdiction to correct a mistake in a real-estate mortgage and to foreclose the mortgage in the same action, when the only service of summons is by publication? Second, is s... | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/7886407 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | ks-kan | 1884-07-15T00:00:00 | {
"cl_opinion_id": "7886407",
"cluster_id": "7935957",
"opinion_type": "020lead",
"text_kind": "html_with_citations",
"source_label": "courtlistener"
} | |
cecb942495886f1a | opinion | ks | Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fé Railroad v. Howe |
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Hurd, J.:
On the 6th day of March, 1883, the legislature .passed an act entitled “ An act concerning railroads and other common carriers,” by the second section of which, “ a board of railroad commissioners,” consisting of three competent persons, was created, and by the... | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/7886409 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | ks-kan | 1884-07-15T00:00:00 | {
"cl_opinion_id": "7886409",
"cluster_id": "7935959",
"opinion_type": "020lead",
"text_kind": "html_with_citations",
"source_label": "courtlistener"
} | |
c275fb9ae8a50bf9 | opinion | ks | State v. Groning |
The opinion of the court was delivered by
HortoN, C. J.:
This was a prosecution for burglary and for larceny committed in connection with burglary, under §§ 68 and 72, ch. 31, Comp. Laws of 1879. The defendant was found guilty of burglary in the second degree, and was also found guilty of larceny. For the crime ... | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/7886414 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | ks-kan | 1885-01-15T00:00:00 | {
"cl_opinion_id": "7886414",
"cluster_id": "7935964",
"opinion_type": "020lead",
"text_kind": "html_with_citations",
"source_label": "courtlistener"
} | |
d24633c65f7d5b1a | opinion | ks | McCandless v. Carlisle |
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Valentine, J.:
This was an action commenced by Harold Carlisle against Wilson McCandless, treasurer of Reno county, *366 Kansas, and J. M. Hedrick, sheriff of said county, to restrain them from the collection of a certain tax. The defendants demurred to the plaintiff’s ... | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/7886338 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | ks-kan | 1884-07-15T00:00:00 | {
"cl_opinion_id": "7886338",
"cluster_id": "7935891",
"opinion_type": "020lead",
"text_kind": "html_with_citations",
"source_label": "courtlistener"
} | |
23912eb6bd63fb4d | opinion | ks | State v. Drake |
The opinion of the court was delivered by
HortoN, C. J.:
An information was filed charging the defendant with the violation of the prohibitory law. This information contained five counts, charging as many distinct offenses. The jury returned a verdict finding the defendant guilty upon the third, fourth and fifth... | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/7886441 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | ks-kan | 1885-01-15T00:00:00 | {
"cl_opinion_id": "7886441",
"cluster_id": "7935991",
"opinion_type": "020lead",
"text_kind": "html_with_citations",
"source_label": "courtlistener"
} | |
edd1589a149e289f | opinion | ks | Gilmore v. Hentig |
The opinion of the court was delivered by
~V ALEN TINE, J.:
This was an action, brought on March 11, 1884, in the district court of Shawnee county, by F. G. Hen- *164 tig and others against George T. Gilmore, county clerk, Bradford Miller, county treasurer, and the city of Topeka, to perpetually enjoin the def... | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/7886442 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | ks-kan | 1885-01-15T00:00:00 | {
"cl_opinion_id": "7886442",
"cluster_id": "7935992",
"opinion_type": "020lead",
"text_kind": "html_with_citations",
"source_label": "courtlistener"
} |
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Full text of 69,413 Kansas 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):
kan, kanctapp.
Lead opinions and separate opinions; documents under 1 characters excluded.
Slice sha256 133c2b91778ff3090a43d49d53a61a4f235e2bd86b7082bc9d8f254849dc6054 (also in slice.manifest.json).
Composition
Measured on this exact slice: 57,288 documents (82.5%) carry 2,000+
characters of text, 4,729 (6.8%) carry 200-1,999, and 7,396
(10.7%) 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
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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-ks")
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