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+---
+license: cc0-1.0
+language:
+- en
+task_categories:
+- text-retrieval
+- text-generation
+size_categories:
+- 10K<n<100K
+configs:
+- config_name: default
+  data_files: data/*.jsonl.gz
+tags:
+- legal
+- law
+- caselaw
+- delaware
+- us-law
+- state-law
+- court-opinions
+- public-domain
+- rag
+- retrieval
+- legal-nlp
+- legal-research
+pretty_name: Delaware Case Law
+---
+
+# Delaware Case Law
+
+Full text of 19,202 Delaware 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):
+`del`, `delch`, `delorphct`.
+
+Lead opinions; documents under 500 characters excluded.
+Slice sha256 `aaa39dd6caf13e1fbf9f46887f4c5b5940e42b2ca2cc41025d273b082eacb66d` (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
+
+```python
+from datasets import load_dataset
+ds = load_dataset("docketx/us-caselaw-de")
+```
+
+Part of the DocketRouter legal corpora: https://huggingface.co/docketx