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us-caselaw-md

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
69f3d1d64fc6c05d	opinion	md	Young v. Allstate Insurance	DAVIS, Judge. Jimmy Young appeals the decision of the Circuit Court for Prince George’s County granting summary judgment in favor of appellee Allstate Insurance Company, thereby denying uninsured motorist coverage to appellant. This case began when appellant, as plaintiff below, filed a motor tort claim ...	cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/2071510	public-domain-edict-of-government	2026-06-30T00:00:00	md-mdctspecapp	1998-03-03T00:00:00	{ "cl_opinion_id": "2071510", "cluster_id": "2071510", "opinion_type": "010combined", "text_kind": "html_with_citations", "source_label": "courtlistener" }
6b86c8e2e2e3bf5e	opinion	md	Mackall v. Farmers Bank	By the Court JUDGMENT AFFIRMED.	cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/7890313	public-domain-edict-of-government	2026-06-30T00:00:00	md-md	1841-12-15T00:00:00	{ "cl_opinion_id": "7890313", "cluster_id": "7939783", "opinion_type": "020lead", "text_kind": "html_with_citations", "source_label": "courtlistener" }
01642f19c43466b1	opinion	md	Bank of Southern Maryland v. Robertson's Crab House, Inc.	Melvin, J., delivered the opinion of the Court. This appeal is from an order of the Circuit Court for Charles County (Bowling, J.) dated October 5, 1977, granting summary judgment in favor of Robertson’s Crab House, Inc. (appellee) and against the Bank of Southern Maryland (appellant) in the amoun...	cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/2073596	public-domain-edict-of-government	2026-06-30T00:00:00	md-mdctspecapp	1978-07-12T00:00:00	{ "cl_opinion_id": "2073596", "cluster_id": "2073596", "opinion_type": "010combined", "text_kind": "html_with_citations", "source_label": "courtlistener" }
c062d01cbb75ab7b	opinion	md	Montgomery County v. Schultze	MURPHY, Chief Judge. At issue in this case is the validity of a special assessment levied against properties abutting a road improvement project in Montgomery County, Maryland. I Montgomery County Code (1977 Repl.Vol.), § 49-37 provides: “(a) No road shall be constructed by the count...	cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/2001717	public-domain-edict-of-government	2026-06-30T00:00:00	md-md	1985-03-08T00:00:00	{ "cl_opinion_id": "2001717", "cluster_id": "2001717", "opinion_type": "010combined", "text_kind": "html_with_citations", "source_label": "courtlistener" }
fd75efee5ead539a	opinion	md	Burch v. State ex rel. McPherson	Dorsey J., delivered the opinion of the court. The plaintiff below, by the replication, did not allege, as the gist of his action, the failure of the defendant to deliver *449 In solido, the just proportion of the personal estate of the deceased; hut elected to claim the value thereof, as appraised in the i...	cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/7889562	public-domain-edict-of-government	2026-06-30T00:00:00	md-md	1832-12-15T00:00:00	{ "cl_opinion_id": "7889562", "cluster_id": "7939040", "opinion_type": "020lead", "text_kind": "html_with_citations", "source_label": "courtlistener" }
a7ed8b3bc14adabf	opinion	md	Duvall v. Farmers' Bank	Archer, Judge, delivered the opinion of the court. When this case was last before this court, on appeal, the court gave a construction to the agreement of 17th of July, *45 1827, and determined, that certain inferences of fact were deducible from the agreement. The construction placed upon the agreement was, ...	cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/7889986	public-domain-edict-of-government	2026-06-30T00:00:00	md-md	1837-06-15T00:00:00	{ "cl_opinion_id": "7889986", "cluster_id": "7939461", "opinion_type": "020lead", "text_kind": "html_with_citations", "source_label": "courtlistener" }
f0cd6ee71e703b26	opinion	md	Beall v. Deale	Stephen, Judge, delivered the opinion of the court. The question involved in this appeal, and which this court has to decide, arises upon the following statement of facts. Jacob Franklin, by his last will and testament, bequeathed the residue of his personal estate to the children of his daughter Mary Deale, ...	cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/7889828	public-domain-edict-of-government	2026-06-30T00:00:00	md-md	1835-12-15T00:00:00	{ "cl_opinion_id": "7889828", "cluster_id": "7939305", "opinion_type": "020lead", "text_kind": "html_with_citations", "source_label": "courtlistener" }
bec9feb338b337d7	opinion	md	Conococheague Bank v. Ragan	Dorsey, Judge, delivered the opinion of the court. All the stockholders of the Conococheague bank should be placed upon an equal footing. Those who have paid off their debts with their stock, have, as a necessary consequence, prevented an accumulation of interest on their debts from the time of such payment; a...	cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/7889857	public-domain-edict-of-government	2026-06-30T00:00:00	md-md	1835-12-15T00:00:00	{ "cl_opinion_id": "7889857", "cluster_id": "7939333", "opinion_type": "020lead", "text_kind": "html_with_citations", "source_label": "courtlistener" }
5dc087ce3216e609	opinion	md	Brice v. Randall	Archer, Judge, delivered the opinion of the court. This cause comes upon bills of exceptions, without any evidence whatever. Anterior to the act of Assembly of 1826, ch. 117, the court would have entertained the appeal, and would have determined the law of the prayers, upon the assumption, that there. Was ev...	cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/7889859	public-domain-edict-of-government	2026-06-30T00:00:00	md-md	1835-12-15T00:00:00	{ "cl_opinion_id": "7889859", "cluster_id": "7939335", "opinion_type": "020lead", "text_kind": "html_with_citations", "source_label": "courtlistener" }
ad11a3f39a11f97a	opinion	md	Clarke v. State ex rel. Darnall	ARCHES, Judge, delivered the opinion of the court. The defendant having offered the proof set out in the bill of exception, himself raises the question, as to competency of the orders of the Orphans’ court, and the accounts passed by the executors of Francis M. Hall, as evidence, that Francis M. Hall has qua...	cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/7889910	public-domain-edict-of-government	2026-06-30T00:00:00	md-md	1836-12-15T00:00:00	{ "cl_opinion_id": "7889910", "cluster_id": "7939386", "opinion_type": "020lead", "text_kind": "html_with_citations", "source_label": "courtlistener" }
fb827c12abf0879c	opinion	md	Young v. State	Dorsey, Judge, delivered the opinion of the court. This case being brought up by an appeal from the judg *259 ment of the county court given upon a general demurrer to the pleas of the appellants, it is insisted by them, that conceding the insufficiency of those pleas, the judgment must be reversed, because, pr...	cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/7889833	public-domain-edict-of-government	2026-06-30T00:00:00	md-md	1835-12-15T00:00:00	{ "cl_opinion_id": "7889833", "cluster_id": "7939310", "opinion_type": "020lead", "text_kind": "html_with_citations", "source_label": "courtlistener" }
f4f25fbd441e76eb	opinion	md	Clarke v. State ex rel. Williams	Dorsey, J., delivered the opinion of the court. We cannot adopt the anomalous character attempted to be given to the bond on which the present action is founded, viz: that it is, as it were, the separate bond of each administrator, in which the securities are bound for both; but the administrators are not respon...	cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/7889727	public-domain-edict-of-government	2026-06-30T00:00:00	md-md	1834-12-15T00:00:00	{ "cl_opinion_id": "7889727", "cluster_id": "7939204", "opinion_type": "020lead", "text_kind": "html_with_citations", "source_label": "courtlistener" }
c3cb40df07d3d4f9	opinion	md	Boteler v. State ex rel. Chew	BuchaNAN, Ch. J., delivered the opinion of the court. The 'suit is upon a bond of Edwin M. Dorsey to the State, with the appellants as his sureties, as a trustee appointed by a decree of Prince George’s county court, to sell certain real estate, the property of Walter B. Brooke, for the payment of a mort...	cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/7889953	public-domain-edict-of-government	2026-06-30T00:00:00	md-md	1836-12-15T00:00:00	{ "cl_opinion_id": "7889953", "cluster_id": "7939429", "opinion_type": "020lead", "text_kind": "html_with_citations", "source_label": "courtlistener" }
740d2654da56d780	opinion	md	Phalen & Morris v. State	Dorsey, J., delivered the opinion of this court. *28 It is admitted, that if all the tickets had been sold in the schemes, which have been drawn under the lottery grants in favor of Washington and St. John’s Colleges, that a larger amount would have been raised than was authorised by the acts of Assembly un...	cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/7890289	public-domain-edict-of-government	2026-06-30T00:00:00	md-md	1841-12-15T00:00:00	{ "cl_opinion_id": "7890289", "cluster_id": "7939761", "opinion_type": "020lead", "text_kind": "html_with_citations", "source_label": "courtlistener" }
836af00d1d0698a3	opinion	md	Harris v. Harris	By the Court decree affirmed.	cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/7890366	public-domain-edict-of-government	2026-06-30T00:00:00	md-md	1842-12-15T00:00:00	{ "cl_opinion_id": "7890366", "cluster_id": "7939836", "opinion_type": "020lead", "text_kind": "html_with_citations", "source_label": "courtlistener" }

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Maryland 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 53,833 Maryland 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): md, mdch, mdctspecapp.

Lead opinions and separate opinions; documents under 1 characters excluded. Slice sha256 3c418c922600952d47827d25d1e7ef5f3da99f2ec79dbf7f74553962e4482a72 (also in slice.manifest.json).

Composition

Measured on this exact slice: 43,075 documents (80.0%) carry 2,000+ characters of text, 6,719 (12.5%) carry 200-1,999, and 4,039 (7.5%) 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-md")

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