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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
3a7c7b3b9218c0c0 | opinion | ky | Daniel v. Commonwealth |
(Opinion of the Court by
Judge Thomas
•Affirming’.
Between 5:30 and 6:00 o ’clock on the afternoon of August 12 (Saturday), 1922, Emmett Gilbert was shot near a buggy shed about one hundred yards in front of his dwelling on Cat creek in Powell county. Early the next morning he was carried.to a hospital in Winc... | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/7147840 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | ky-kyctapp | 1923-03-09T00:00:00 | {
"cl_opinion_id": "7147840",
"cluster_id": "7235421",
"opinion_type": "020lead",
"text_kind": "html_with_citations",
"source_label": "courtlistener"
} | |
3e033d03901dadcd | opinion | ky | Peggy Brady Goodin (Now Smith) v. Charles R. Goodin Jr | RENDERED: NOVEMBER 13, 2020; 10:00 A.M.
NOT TO BE PUBLISHED
Commonwealth of Kentucky
Court of Appeals
NO. 2019-CA-1308-MR
PEGGY BRADY GOODIN (NOW
SMITH) ... | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/4588384 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | ky-kyctapp | 2020-11-12T00:00:00 | {
"cl_opinion_id": "4588384",
"cluster_id": "4808037",
"opinion_type": "010combined",
"text_kind": "plain_text",
"source_label": "courtlistener"
} | |
03f8eee64a4a7394 | opinion | ky | Lisa Hogg v. Dorothy Ann Hogg | RENDERED: NOVEMBER 13, 2020; 10:00 A.M.
TO BE PUBLISHED
Commonwealth of Kentucky
Court of Appeals
NO. 2019-CA-1621-MR
LISA HOGG APPELLANT
... | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/4588385 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | ky-kyctapp | 2020-11-12T00:00:00 | {
"cl_opinion_id": "4588385",
"cluster_id": "4808038",
"opinion_type": "010combined",
"text_kind": "plain_text",
"source_label": "courtlistener"
} | |
f1297c2ce2b24cb3 | opinion | ky | Justin Matthew Walker v. Commonwealth of Kentucky | RENDERED: NOVEMBER 13, 2020; 10:00 A.M.
NOT TO BE PUBLISHED
Commonwealth of Kentucky
Court of Appeals
NO. 2018-CA-1423-MR
JUSTIN MATTHEW WALKER ... | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/4588386 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | ky-kyctapp | 2020-11-12T00:00:00 | {
"cl_opinion_id": "4588386",
"cluster_id": "4808039",
"opinion_type": "010combined",
"text_kind": "plain_text",
"source_label": "courtlistener"
} | |
a7b75963aeb617f9 | opinion | ky | Curtis Davis v. Brynn Warnock | RENDERED: NOVEMBER 13, 2020; 10:00 A.M.
NOT TO BE PUBLISHED
Commonwealth of Kentucky
Court of Appeals
NO. 2019-CA-1198-MR
CURTIS DAVIS APPELLANT
... | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/4588389 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | ky-kyctapp | 2020-11-12T00:00:00 | {
"cl_opinion_id": "4588389",
"cluster_id": "4808042",
"opinion_type": "010combined",
"text_kind": "plain_text",
"source_label": "courtlistener"
} | |
9d1b6f1c0e900e3b | opinion | ky | Colby Arnold v. Commonwealth of Kentucky | RENDERED: NOVEMBER 13, 2020; 10:00 A.M.
NOT TO BE PUBLISHED
Commonwealth of Kentucky
Court of Appeals
NO. 2019-CA-1375-MR
COLBY ARNOLD APPELLANT
... | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/4588390 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | ky-kyctapp | 2020-11-12T00:00:00 | {
"cl_opinion_id": "4588390",
"cluster_id": "4808043",
"opinion_type": "010combined",
"text_kind": "plain_text",
"source_label": "courtlistener"
} | |
33878f73228f71ba | opinion | ky | Chaz Owens v. Avis Budget Car Rental, LLC | RENDERED: NOVEMBER 13, 2020; 10:00 A.M.
NOT TO BE PUBLISHED
Commonwealth of Kentucky
Court of Appeals
NO. 2020-CA-0427-MR
CHAZ OWENS APPELLANT
... | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/4588391 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | ky-kyctapp | 2020-11-12T00:00:00 | {
"cl_opinion_id": "4588391",
"cluster_id": "4808044",
"opinion_type": "010combined",
"text_kind": "plain_text",
"source_label": "courtlistener"
} | |
b6296fa8a1f543bd | opinion | ky | Charmin Watson v. Landmark Urology, P.S.C. | RENDERED: NOVEMBER 13, 2020; 10:00 A.M.
NOT TO BE PUBLISHED
Commonwealth of Kentucky
Court of Appeals
NO. 2019-CA-1271-MR
CHARMIN WATSON AND STEPHEN WATSON APPELLANTS
... | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/4588392 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | ky-kyctapp | 2020-11-12T00:00:00 | {
"cl_opinion_id": "4588392",
"cluster_id": "4808045",
"opinion_type": "010combined",
"text_kind": "plain_text",
"source_label": "courtlistener"
} | |
f33c67c2f2444312 | opinion | ky | Charles A. Frizzell Jr v. Commonwealth of Kentucky | RENDERED: NOVEMBER 13, 2020; 10:00 A.M.
NOT TO BE PUBLISHED
Commonwealth of Kentucky
Court of Appeals
NO. 2018-CA-1679-MR
CHARLES A. FRIZZELL, JR. APPELLANT
... | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/4588393 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | ky-kyctapp | 2020-11-12T00:00:00 | {
"cl_opinion_id": "4588393",
"cluster_id": "4808046",
"opinion_type": "010combined",
"text_kind": "plain_text",
"source_label": "courtlistener"
} | |
f9d3481d89b4429e | opinion | ky | Bluegrass Oakwood, Inc. v. Robin Stubbs | " RENDERED: NOVEMBER 13, 2020; 10:00 A.M.\n NOT TO BE PUBLISHED\n(...TRUNCATED) | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/4588394 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | ky-kyctapp | 2020-11-12T00:00:00 | {"cl_opinion_id":"4588394","cluster_id":"4808047","opinion_type":"010combined","text_kind":"plain_te(...TRUNCATED) |
Kentucky 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.
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Full text of 92,146 Kentucky 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):
ky, kyctapp, kyctapphigh.
Lead opinions and separate opinions; documents under 1 characters excluded.
Slice sha256 df2fe25fdaff49251b013c24c5b01702a027cbf1d73042e183a5b632c4c38baa (also in slice.manifest.json).
Composition
Measured on this exact slice: 81,321 documents (88.3%) carry 2,000+
characters of text, 8,801 (9.6%) carry 200-1,999, and 2,024
(2.2%) 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-ky")
Part of the DocketRouter legal corpora: https://huggingface.co/docketx
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