id stringlengths 16 16 | doc_type stringclasses 1
value | jurisdiction stringclasses 1
value | title stringlengths 4 154 | text stringlengths 2 333k | source stringlengths 36 38 | license stringclasses 1
value | retrieved_at timestamp[s]date 2026-06-30 00:00:00 2026-06-30 00:00:00 | citation stringclasses 1
value | court stringclasses 3
values | date timestamp[s]date 1805-07-01 00:00:00 2026-06-29 00:00:00 | extra dict |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
86d0185b7b70663f | opinion | mi | Samuel J Randall v. Michigan High School Athletic Association | If this opinion indicates that it is “FOR PUBLICATION,” it is subject to
revision until final publication in the Michigan Appeals Reports.
STATE OF MICHIGAN
COURT OF APPEALS
SAMUEL J. RANDALL, FOR PUBLICATION
... | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/4588292 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | mi-michctapp | 2020-11-19T00:00:00 | {
"cl_opinion_id": "4588292",
"cluster_id": "4807945",
"opinion_type": "010combined",
"text_kind": "plain_text",
"source_label": "courtlistener"
} | |
26a487b37f5a324d | opinion | mi | Michigan Ambulatory Surgical Center v. Farm Bureau Insurance | If this opinion indicates that it is “FOR PUBLICATION,” it is subject to
revision until final publication in the Michigan Appeals Reports.
STATE OF MICHIGAN
COURT OF APPEALS
MICHIGAN AMBULATORY SURGICAL ... | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/4588294 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | mi-michctapp | 2020-11-19T00:00:00 | {
"cl_opinion_id": "4588294",
"cluster_id": "4807947",
"opinion_type": "010combined",
"text_kind": "plain_text",
"source_label": "courtlistener"
} | |
f6415489bab779e0 | opinion | mi | John B MacMillan v. Greg Haase | If this opinion indicates that it is “FOR PUBLICATION,” it is subject to
revision until final publication in the Michigan Appeals Reports.
STATE OF MICHIGAN
COURT OF APPEALS
JOHN B. MACMILLAN, ... | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/4588319 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | mi-michctapp | 2020-11-19T00:00:00 | {
"cl_opinion_id": "4588319",
"cluster_id": "4807972",
"opinion_type": "010combined",
"text_kind": "plain_text",
"source_label": "courtlistener"
} | |
c9715a4d1bcf5cb5 | opinion | mi | Cochrane v. Mesick Consolidated School District Board of Education |
360 Mich. 390 (1960)
103 N.W.2d 569
COCHRANE
v.
MESICK CONSOLIDATED SCHOOL DISTRICT BOARD OF EDUCATION.
Docket No. 23, Calendar No. 48,304.
Supreme Court of Michigan.
Decided June 7, 1960.
*391 Paul L. Adams, Attorney General, Samuel J. Torina, Solicitor General, and Maxine Boo... | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/1757885 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | mi-mich | 1960-06-07T00:00:00 | {
"cl_opinion_id": "1757885",
"cluster_id": "1757885",
"opinion_type": "010combined",
"text_kind": "html_with_citations",
"source_label": "courtlistener"
} | |
7e17f373ff43be13 | opinion | mi | Cameron Holloway v. Michigan Education Special Services Assn | If this opinion indicates that it is “FOR PUBLICATION,” it is subject to
revision until final publication in the Michigan Appeals Reports.
STATE OF MICHIGAN
COURT OF APPEALS
CAMERON HOLLOWAY, ... | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/9953439 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | mi-michctapp | 2024-03-21T00:00:00 | {
"cl_opinion_id": "9953439",
"cluster_id": "9486826",
"opinion_type": "010combined",
"text_kind": "plain_text",
"source_label": "courtlistener"
} | |
a74fe5aebf1a7856 | opinion | mi | People of Michigan v. Jose Ramon Martinez | " If this opinion indicates that it is “FOR PUBLICATION,” it is subject to\n (...TRUNCATED) | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/9953419 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | mi-michctapp | 2024-03-21T00:00:00 | {"cl_opinion_id":"9953419","cluster_id":"9486806","opinion_type":"010combined","text_kind":"plain_te(...TRUNCATED) | |
c83ec2583d18584c | opinion | mi | In Re green/sherwood Minors | " If this opinion indicates that it is “FOR PUBLICATION,” it is subject to\n (...TRUNCATED) | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/9953426 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | mi-michctapp | 2024-03-21T00:00:00 | {"cl_opinion_id":"9953426","cluster_id":"9486813","opinion_type":"010combined","text_kind":"plain_te(...TRUNCATED) | |
07d3a8a76099c7cd | opinion | mi | In Re McCall Minors | " If this opinion indicates that it is “FOR PUBLICATION,” it is subject to\n (...TRUNCATED) | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/9953430 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | mi-michctapp | 2024-03-21T00:00:00 | {"cl_opinion_id":"9953430","cluster_id":"9486817","opinion_type":"010combined","text_kind":"plain_te(...TRUNCATED) | |
84cf8e39b3636938 | opinion | mi | Mark Beszka v. Leslee Marie Beszka | " If this opinion indicates that it is “FOR PUBLICATION,” it is subject to\n (...TRUNCATED) | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/9953423 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | mi-michctapp | 2024-03-21T00:00:00 | {"cl_opinion_id":"9953423","cluster_id":"9486810","opinion_type":"010combined","text_kind":"plain_te(...TRUNCATED) | |
5f4ec25d5fbb3d41 | opinion | mi | Estate of Jimmie Lee Brown v. Unidentified Employee of Smart | " If this opinion indicates that it is “FOR PUBLICATION,” it is subject to\n (...TRUNCATED) | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/9953434 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | mi-michctapp | 2024-03-21T00:00:00 | {"cl_opinion_id":"9953434","cluster_id":"9486821","opinion_type":"010combined","text_kind":"plain_te(...TRUNCATED) |
Michigan 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 159,686 Michigan 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):
mich, michchanct, michctapp.
Lead opinions and separate opinions; documents under 1 characters excluded.
Slice sha256 d53ae5808c659ffaa03eb51c3cbe3bcb32905823dfcf739df9fe7a85bfecc802 (also in slice.manifest.json).
Composition
Measured on this exact slice: 137,711 documents (86.2%) carry 2,000+
characters of text, 18,427 (11.5%) carry 200-1,999, and 3,548
(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-mi")
Part of the DocketRouter legal corpora: https://huggingface.co/docketx
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