id stringlengths 16 16 | doc_type stringclasses 1
value | jurisdiction stringclasses 1
value | title stringlengths 4 163 | text stringlengths 14 713k | source stringlengths 36 108 | license stringclasses 1
value | retrieved_at timestamp[s]date 2026-06-30 00:00:00 2026-09-14 00:00:00 | citation stringclasses 1
value | court stringclasses 11
values | date timestamp[s]date 1803-05-09 00:00:00 2026-09-11 00:00:00 | extra dict |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
bdec19f3062e197b | opinion | ca | People v. Hazlett | "IN THE SUPREME COURT OF\n CALIFORNIA\n\n THE PEOPLE,\n (...TRUNCATED) | https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/10960432/people-v-hazlett/ | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-09-14T00:00:00 | cal | 2026-08-27T00:00:00 | {"cl_opinion_id":"11428037","cluster_id":"10960432","opinion_type":"combined-opinion","text_kind":"p(...TRUNCATED) | |
23e6783f430d19d3 | opinion | ca | Mayor v. Workers' Comp. App. Bd. & Ross Valley Sanitation Dist. | "IN THE SUPREME COURT OF\n CALIFORNIA\n\n JOSEPH MAYOR,\n (...TRUNCATED) | https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/10956718/mayor-v-workers-comp-app-bd-ross-valley-sanitation-dist/ | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-09-14T00:00:00 | cal | 2026-08-24T00:00:00 | {"cl_opinion_id":"11424323","cluster_id":"10956718","opinion_type":"combined-opinion","text_kind":"p(...TRUNCATED) | |
f7aea9f381c5bfa3 | opinion | ca | Town of Apple Valley v. Apple Valley Ranchos Water | "IN THE SUPREME COURT OF\n CALIFORNIA\n\n TOWN OF APPLE VALLEY,\n (...TRUNCATED) | https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/10956717/town-of-apple-valley-v-apple-valley-ranchos-water/ | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-09-14T00:00:00 | cal | 2026-08-24T00:00:00 | {"cl_opinion_id":"11424322","cluster_id":"10956717","opinion_type":"combined-opinion","text_kind":"p(...TRUNCATED) | |
fdd4d31f87092c88 | opinion | ca | People v. Esquivias | "IN THE SUPREME COURT OF\n CALIFORNIA\n\n THE PEOPLE,\n (...TRUNCATED) | https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/10951946/people-v-esquivias/ | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-09-14T00:00:00 | cal | 2026-08-17T00:00:00 | {"cl_opinion_id":"11419538","cluster_id":"10951946","opinion_type":"combined-opinion","text_kind":"p(...TRUNCATED) | |
451a7a444f85a47a | opinion | ca | People v. Lightsey | "IN THE SUPREME COURT OF\n CALIFORNIA\n\n THE PEOPLE,\n (...TRUNCATED) | https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/10951945/people-v-lightsey/ | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-09-14T00:00:00 | cal | 2026-08-17T00:00:00 | {"cl_opinion_id":"11419537","cluster_id":"10951945","opinion_type":"combined-opinion","text_kind":"p(...TRUNCATED) | |
a1609888f25f3a6e | opinion | ca | People v. Pearson | "IN THE SUPREME COURT OF\n CALIFORNIA\n\n THE PEOPLE,\n (...TRUNCATED) | https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/10951944/people-v-pearson/ | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-09-14T00:00:00 | cal | 2026-08-17T00:00:00 | {"cl_opinion_id":"11419536","cluster_id":"10951944","opinion_type":"combined-opinion","text_kind":"p(...TRUNCATED) | |
fe8ec0a9037f743b | opinion | ca | People v. Hernandez | "IN THE SUPREME COURT OF\n CALIFORNIA\n\n THE PEOPLE,\n (...TRUNCATED) | https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/10947288/people-v-hernandez/ | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-09-14T00:00:00 | cal | 2026-08-13T00:00:00 | {"cl_opinion_id":"11414874","cluster_id":"10947288","opinion_type":"combined-opinion","text_kind":"p(...TRUNCATED) | |
509f479d31c76ca6 | opinion | ca | People v. Shove | "IN THE SUPREME COURT OF\n CALIFORNIA\n\n THE PEOPLE,\n (...TRUNCATED) | https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/10947287/people-v-shove/ | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-09-14T00:00:00 | cal | 2026-08-13T00:00:00 | {"cl_opinion_id":"11414873","cluster_id":"10947287","opinion_type":"combined-opinion","text_kind":"p(...TRUNCATED) | |
601e5c7e95e14342 | opinion | ca | Family Violence Appellate Project v. Super. Ct. | "IN THE SUPREME COURT OF\n CALIFORNIA\n\n FAMILY VIOLENCE APPELLATE PROJECT et al.(...TRUNCATED) | https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/10943894/family-violence-appellate-project-v-super-ct/ | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-09-14T00:00:00 | cal | 2026-08-10T00:00:00 | {"cl_opinion_id":"11411478","cluster_id":"10943894","opinion_type":"combined-opinion","text_kind":"p(...TRUNCATED) | |
882236e1e9830c7c | opinion | ca | Tesoro Refining & Marketing Co. LLC v. City of Carson | "IN THE SUPREME COURT OF\n CALIFORNIA\n\nTESORO REFINING & MARKETING COMPANY LLC et al(...TRUNCATED) | https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/10943893/tesoro-refining-marketing-co-llc-v-city-of-carson/ | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-09-14T00:00:00 | cal | 2026-08-10T00:00:00 | {"cl_opinion_id":"11411477","cluster_id":"10943893","opinion_type":"combined-opinion","text_kind":"p(...TRUNCATED) |
California Case Law
Full text of 242,989 California appellate opinion documents from the public record. The base
slice is 242,831 documents from the Free Law Project / CourtListener bulk export of 2026-06-30.
data/ca-delta-2026-06-29-to-2026-09-11.jsonl.gz ADDS 158 opinions filed after that snapshot,
harvested directly from CourtListener's live search API and its own object storage (never a state
court's own search portal, several of which disallow automated access) — added 2026-09-14.
Court coverage (9 court ids, explicit allowlist — never prefix-matched):
cal, calappdeptsuper, calctapp, calctapp1d, calctapp2d, calctapp3d, calctapp4d, calctapp5d, calctapp6d.
Lead opinions and separate opinions; documents under 1 characters excluded.
Slice sha256 2b5efd77aa7e36819f623d304e4f2c38eaa29f0ac9703f2de648694561d59b8b (also in slice.manifest.json).
Composition
Measured on this exact slice: 227,405 documents (93.6%) carry 2,000+
characters of text, 14,462 (6.0%) carry 200-1,999, and 964
(0.4%) 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-ca")
Part of the DocketRouter legal corpora: https://huggingface.co/docketx
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