Datasets:
id stringlengths 16 16 | doc_type stringclasses 1
value | jurisdiction stringclasses 1
value | title stringlengths 8 1.1k | text stringlengths 30 477k | 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 2
values | date timestamp[s]date 1864-01-15 00:00:00 2026-06-26 00:00:00 | extra dict |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
eaf44c16f8213415 | opinion | wv | State of West Virginia v. Robert Anthony Chester | STATE OF WEST VIRGINIA
SUPREME COURT OF APPEALS
State of West Virginia,
Plaintiff Below, Respondent FILED
September 3, 2020
vs.) No. 19-... | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/4562650 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | wv-wva | 2020-09-03T00:00:00 | {
"cl_opinion_id": "4562650",
"cluster_id": "4782303",
"opinion_type": "010combined",
"text_kind": "plain_text",
"source_label": "courtlistener"
} | |
e87607620018172b | opinion | wv | In re L.W. | STATE OF WEST VIRGINIA
SUPREME COURT OF APPEALS
FILED
In re L.W. September 3, 2020
... | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/4562659 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | wv-wva | 2020-09-03T00:00:00 | {
"cl_opinion_id": "4562659",
"cluster_id": "4782312",
"opinion_type": "010combined",
"text_kind": "plain_text",
"source_label": "courtlistener"
} | |
35ac7bee98e52629 | opinion | wv | In re H.H. | STATE OF WEST VIRGINIA
SUPREME COURT OF APPEALS
In re H.H. FILED
September 3, 2020
No. 20-0061 (Tyler Co... | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/4562666 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | wv-wva | 2020-09-03T00:00:00 | {
"cl_opinion_id": "4562666",
"cluster_id": "4782319",
"opinion_type": "010combined",
"text_kind": "plain_text",
"source_label": "courtlistener"
} | |
dd7d945b367a6705 | opinion | wv | In re D.P., G.P., and S.P. | STATE OF WEST VIRGINIA
SUPREME COURT OF APPEALS
FILED
September 3, 2020
In re D.P., G.P., and S.P. ... | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/4562668 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | wv-wva | 2020-09-03T00:00:00 | {
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"cluster_id": "4782321",
"opinion_type": "010combined",
"text_kind": "plain_text",
"source_label": "courtlistener"
} | |
5601f3d89a6bb6ed | opinion | wv | State of West Virginia, Ex rel 3M Company v. Jay Hoke and Patrick Morrisey | No. 20-0014 – State of West Virginia ex rel. 3M Company, F/K/A Minnesota Mining
and Manufacturing Company, Mine Safety Appliances Company, and
American Optical Corporation v. Honorable Jay Hoke, Judge of the
Circuit Court of Lincoln County, and State... | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/4635502 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | wv-wva | 2020-11-23T00:00:00 | {
"cl_opinion_id": "4635502",
"cluster_id": "4831723",
"opinion_type": "010combined",
"text_kind": "plain_text",
"source_label": "courtlistener"
} | |
fb7f89d3d682ccc1 | opinion | wv | Mountaineer Fire & Rescue Equipment, LLC. v. City National Bank of West Virginia and Joe Beam | No. 18-0984 – Mountaineer Fire & Rescue Equipment, LLC, Brian Cavender, and
Walter Cavender v. City National Bank of West Virginia, and Joe
Beam
FILED
Jenkins, Justice, concurring, in part, and ... | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/4635504 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | wv-wva | 2020-11-23T00:00:00 | {
"cl_opinion_id": "4635504",
"cluster_id": "4831725",
"opinion_type": "010combined",
"text_kind": "plain_text",
"source_label": "courtlistener"
} | |
8f61177651e4fbfb | opinion | wv | State of West Virginia, Ex rel 3M Company v. Jay Hoke and Patrick Morrisey | IN THE SUPREME COURT OF APPEALS OF WEST VIRGINIA
September 2020 Term
FILED
_______________
November 23, 2020
... | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/4637050 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | wv-wva | 2020-11-23T00:00:00 | {
"cl_opinion_id": "4637050",
"cluster_id": "4833271",
"opinion_type": "010combined",
"text_kind": "plain_text",
"source_label": "courtlistener"
} | |
a6e1a749369820a3 | opinion | wv | State of West Virginia ex rel. Troy Group v. David J. Sims and Nakita Willis | "No. 20-0007 – State of West Virginia ex rel. Troy Group, et al. v. Sims, et al.\n (...TRUNCATED) | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/4637046 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | wv-wva | 2020-11-24T00:00:00 | {"cl_opinion_id":"4637046","cluster_id":"4833267","opinion_type":"010combined","text_kind":"plain_te(...TRUNCATED) | |
33cf37d739ca732e | opinion | wv | State of West Virginia v. Joseph C. | " STATE OF WEST VIRGINIA\n SUPREME COURT OF AP(...TRUNCATED) | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/4563182 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | wv-wva | 2020-09-04T00:00:00 | {"cl_opinion_id":"4563182","cluster_id":"4782835","opinion_type":"010combined","text_kind":"plain_te(...TRUNCATED) | |
48be1bda96c44326 | opinion | wv | Donald Moore v. Chip Franklin Buzzo and Vanda Dawn Buzzo | " STATE OF WEST VIRGINIA\n SUPREME COURT OF APPE(...TRUNCATED) | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/4563189 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | wv-wva | 2020-09-04T00:00:00 | {"cl_opinion_id":"4563189","cluster_id":"4782842","opinion_type":"010combined","text_kind":"plain_te(...TRUNCATED) |
West Virginia Case Law
Full text of 39,546 West Virginia 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):
wva, wvactapp.
Lead opinions and separate opinions; documents under 1 characters excluded.
Slice sha256 85851a0600259bc1258b805bfaae76f37245897b424a4bebd6e38bd5ecd8f5d5 (also in slice.manifest.json).
Composition
Measured on this exact slice: 38,504 documents (97.4%) carry 2,000+
characters of text, 1,001 (2.5%) carry 200-1,999, and 41
(0.1%) 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-wv")
Part of the DocketRouter legal corpora: https://huggingface.co/docketx
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