- Records
- 9.8M
- Size
- 168 GB
- Formats
- jsonl, parquet
- Licence
- CC0-1.0
- Source
- CourtListener / Free Law Project bulk data
- Status
- In compilation
US Federal Court Opinions
Roughly ten million opinions, Supreme Court down to district.
The job it doesLegal research, citation graphs, and contract reasoning.
This pack is still being compiled and verified. We won't take money for something we can't hand over today. A Founding Gold Card includes every pack.
§01 — What's inside
Full-text federal and state court opinions with structured metadata: court, docket, date filed, panel, disposition, and a resolved citation graph so an agent can walk precedent rather than guess at it. Judicial opinions are uncopyrightable under the government edicts doctrine.
§02 — Sample record
See the shape before you pay.
[
{
"text": "The Administrative Procedure Act requires courts to exercise their independent judgment...",
"court": "scotus",
"citation": "603 U.S. 369",
"case_name": "Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo",
"date_filed": "2024-06-28"
}
]§03 — Provenance
Where every record came from.
This table ships inside the archive as PROVENANCE.json. Keep it with the data.
CourtListener bulk opinions
- Licence
- Public domain (government edicts)
- Retrieved
- 2026-08
Licence note. Judicial opinions are in the public domain under the government edicts doctrine. Commercial use unrestricted.
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