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us-caselaw-ri

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
b31221bc4a71c2d1	opinion	ri	State v. Guzman	OPINION FLANDERS, Justice. After watching a gunman flee on foot from the crime scene, an eyewitness to a fatal shooting called 911, described the shooter to the police, and specified the direction that he was running when last observed. More particularly, he also told the police that the fugitive ...	cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/2071328	public-domain-edict-of-government	2026-06-30T00:00:00	ri-ri	2000-04-21T00:00:00	{ "cl_opinion_id": "2071328", "cluster_id": "2071328", "opinion_type": "010combined", "text_kind": "html_with_citations", "source_label": "courtlistener" }
1c9a8e2e58dd16ec	opinion	ri	Donovan v. Bowling	OPINION BOURCIER, Justice. This case came before us following our granting of the plaintiffs’ petition for writ of certiorari filed after a Superior Court trial justice granted the defendants’ motion in li-mine that sought to disqualify Constance Bowe, M.D., a treating physician and expert witness...	cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/2071513	public-domain-edict-of-government	2026-06-30T00:00:00	ri-ri	1998-02-12T00:00:00	{ "cl_opinion_id": "2071513", "cluster_id": "2071513", "opinion_type": "010combined", "text_kind": "html_with_citations", "source_label": "courtlistener" }
9fe95b8091da6fd0	opinion	ri	State v. Rivera	OPINION FLANDERS, Justice. This case concerns a 1993 drug raid during which Providence police officers executed search warrants for the second- and third-floor apartments in a Providence tenement. The searches yielded enough evidence of heroin and other drug-processing paraphernalia from the third...	cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/2071582	public-domain-edict-of-government	2026-06-30T00:00:00	ri-ri	1997-12-23T00:00:00	{ "cl_opinion_id": "2071582", "cluster_id": "2071582", "opinion_type": "010combined", "text_kind": "html_with_citations", "source_label": "courtlistener" }
b331934c66b2a4bb	opinion	ri	Bruce Pollak v. 217 Indian Avenue, LLC	December 17, 2019 Supreme Court No. 2017-368-Appeal. (NC 17-240) Bruce Pollak ...	cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/4470168	public-domain-edict-of-government	2026-06-30T00:00:00	ri-ri	2019-12-17T00:00:00	{ "cl_opinion_id": "4470168", "cluster_id": "4692876", "opinion_type": "010combined", "text_kind": "plain_text", "source_label": "courtlistener" }
1b60390503ebc1df	opinion	ri	John Ferreira v. Child and Family Services of Rhode Island	December 17, 2019 Supreme Court No. 2018-177-Appeal. (NC 17-330) John Ferre...	cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/4470167	public-domain-edict-of-government	2026-06-30T00:00:00	ri-ri	2019-12-17T00:00:00	{ "cl_opinion_id": "4470167", "cluster_id": "4692875", "opinion_type": "010combined", "text_kind": "plain_text", "source_label": "courtlistener" }
56fc4ffc17ad7f3b	opinion	ri	Lisa Garant v. Michael E. Winchester	Supreme Court No. 2015-339-Appeal. (PC 13-3697) Lisa Garant : v. : Michael E. Win...	cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/4105725	public-domain-edict-of-government	2026-06-30T00:00:00	ri-ri	2016-12-08T00:00:00	{ "cl_opinion_id": "4105725", "cluster_id": "4328464", "opinion_type": "010combined", "text_kind": "plain_text", "source_label": "courtlistener" }
95216e957fa624f2	opinion	ri	Crum v. Horowitz	ORDER The plaintiff, Brian K. Crum (plaintiff or Crum), appeals from a Superior Court jury verdict in favor of the defendants, Jordan W. Horowitz, Linda L. Horowitz (Mrs. Horowitz), and Ford Motor Credit Company (collectively defendants). After a nine-day trial, the jury found, by way of special interrog...	cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/2074626	public-domain-edict-of-government	2026-06-30T00:00:00	ri-ri	2006-05-01T00:00:00	{ "cl_opinion_id": "2074626", "cluster_id": "2074626", "opinion_type": "010combined", "text_kind": "html_with_citations", "source_label": "courtlistener" }
e05abddb2bd29857	opinion	ri	State v. Joseph Segrain	January 27, 2021 Supreme Court No. 2019-13-C.A. (P2/12-140A) State : ...	cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/4654959	public-domain-edict-of-government	2026-06-30T00:00:00	ri-ri	2021-01-27T00:00:00	{ "cl_opinion_id": "4654959", "cluster_id": "4851180", "opinion_type": "010combined", "text_kind": "plain_text", "source_label": "courtlistener" }
f21bc0453d64a903	opinion	ri	State v. Andrew Smith	"January 27, 2021\n\n Supreme Court\n\n (...TRUNCATED)	cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/4654960	public-domain-edict-of-government	2026-06-30T00:00:00	ri-ri	2021-01-27T00:00:00	{"cl_opinion_id":"4654960","cluster_id":"4851181","opinion_type":"010combined","text_kind":"plain_te(...TRUNCATED)
c80f666c362e83a9	opinion	ri	Charles Martin v. Glen Wilson	"March 19, 2021\n\n\n Supreme Court\n\n (...TRUNCATED)	cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/4669568	public-domain-edict-of-government	2026-06-30T00:00:00	ri-ri	2021-03-19T00:00:00	{"cl_opinion_id":"4669568","cluster_id":"4865789","opinion_type":"010combined","text_kind":"plain_te(...TRUNCATED)

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Rhode Island Case Law

Full text of 21,998 Rhode Island appellate opinion documents from the public record, sliced from the Free Law Project / CourtListener bulk export of 2026-06-30.

Court coverage (1 court ids, explicit allowlist — never prefix-matched): ri.

Lead opinions; documents under 500 characters excluded. Slice sha256 325d1dc8e2f00309bab60cb057c6cf98426e1c3e40e8812f1b8d7b3da87fdd90 (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-ri")

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

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