id stringlengths 16 16 | doc_type stringclasses 1
value | jurisdiction stringclasses 1
value | title stringlengths 4 269 | text stringlengths 2 1.5M | source stringlengths 35 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 3
values | date timestamp[s]date 1754-09-01 00:00:00 2026-06-29 00:00:00 | extra dict |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
b5a73fefe4777643 | opinion | pa | J. Patton v. PBPP | IN THE COMMONWEALTH COURT OF PENNSYLVANIA
Julian Patton, :
Petitioner :
:
v. : No. 175 C.D. 2020
: Submitted: September 11, ... | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/4588454 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | pa-pacommwct | 2020-11-20T00:00:00 | {
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"cluster_id": "4808107",
"opinion_type": "010combined",
"text_kind": "plain_text",
"source_label": "courtlistener"
} | |
23c8f436455a695c | opinion | pa | MJ Test Prep v. Lynch, D. | J-A19042-20
NON-PRECEDENTIAL DECISION - SEE SUPERIOR COURT I.O.P. 65.37
MJ TEST PREP, LLC AND MATTHEW : IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF
W. JOSEPH, PH.D., : PENNSYLVANIA
:
:
v. ... | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/4653271 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | pa-pasuperct | 2021-01-21T00:00:00 | {
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"opinion_type": "010combined",
"text_kind": "plain_text",
"source_label": "courtlistener"
} | |
28b150fa5448a353 | opinion | pa | Com. v. Summers, B. | J-A15041-20
2021 PA Super 11
COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA, : IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF
: PENNSYLVANIA
Appellee :
:
v. ... | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/4653275 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | pa-pasuperct | 2021-01-21T00:00:00 | {
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"cluster_id": "4849496",
"opinion_type": "010combined",
"text_kind": "plain_text",
"source_label": "courtlistener"
} | |
237b735d4999edd8 | opinion | pa | P.S. and R.S. v. C.D. | J-A02026-20
NON-PRECEDENTIAL DECISION - SEE SUPERIOR COURT I.O.P. 65.37
P.S. and R.S. : IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF
: PENNSYLVANIA
:
v. :
... | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/4468258 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | pa-pasuperct | 2019-12-30T00:00:00 | {
"cl_opinion_id": "4468258",
"cluster_id": "4691005",
"opinion_type": "010combined",
"text_kind": "plain_text",
"source_label": "courtlistener"
} | |
f464d0b02ab44fef | opinion | pa | Com. v. Robinson, T. | J-S43035-20
NON-PRECEDENTIAL DECISION - SEE SUPERIOR COURT I.O.P. 65.37
COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA : IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF
: PENNSYLVANIA
Appellee :
:
... | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/4653278 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | pa-pasuperct | 2021-01-21T00:00:00 | {
"cl_opinion_id": "4653278",
"cluster_id": "4849499",
"opinion_type": "010combined",
"text_kind": "plain_text",
"source_label": "courtlistener"
} | |
96f677ae6cbf2068 | opinion | pa | Com. v. Cimino, W. | J-S43034-20
NON-PRECEDENTIAL DECISION - SEE SUPERIOR COURT I.O.P. 65.37
COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA : IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF
: PENNSYLVANIA
Appellee :
:
... | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/4653291 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | pa-pasuperct | 2021-01-21T00:00:00 | {
"cl_opinion_id": "4653291",
"cluster_id": "4849512",
"opinion_type": "010combined",
"text_kind": "plain_text",
"source_label": "courtlistener"
} | |
25ebb44668351338 | opinion | pa | Com. v. Boyd, J. | J-S52023-20
NON-PRECEDENTIAL DECISION - SEE SUPERIOR COURT I.O.P. 65.37
COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA : IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF
: PENNSYLVANIA
:
v. :
... | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/4653292 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | pa-pasuperct | 2021-01-21T00:00:00 | {
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"cluster_id": "4849513",
"opinion_type": "010combined",
"text_kind": "plain_text",
"source_label": "courtlistener"
} | |
868835ef82c6321b | opinion | pa | Com. v. Blackson, J. | J-S52004-20
NON-PRECEDENTIAL DECISION - SEE SUPERIOR COURT I.O.P. 65.37
COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA : IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF
: PENNSYLVANIA
:
v. :
... | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/4653293 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | pa-pasuperct | 2021-01-21T00:00:00 | {
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"cluster_id": "4849514",
"opinion_type": "010combined",
"text_kind": "plain_text",
"source_label": "courtlistener"
} | |
9218c45757798aa0 | opinion | pa | Com. v. Bernal, L. | "J-A25042-20\n\n\nNON-PRECEDENTIAL DECISION - SEE SUPERIOR COURT I.O.P. 65.37\n\n COMMONWEALTH OF(...TRUNCATED) | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/4653294 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | pa-pasuperct | 2021-01-21T00:00:00 | {"cl_opinion_id":"4653294","cluster_id":"4849515","opinion_type":"010combined","text_kind":"plain_te(...TRUNCATED) | |
0019bdb647dcb04e | opinion | pa | Com. v. Bennett, V. | "J-S48010-20\n\n 2021 PA Super 8\n\n COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVAN(...TRUNCATED) | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/4653295 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | pa-pasuperct | 2021-01-21T00:00:00 | {"cl_opinion_id":"4653295","cluster_id":"4849516","opinion_type":"010combined","text_kind":"plain_te(...TRUNCATED) |
Pennsylvania Case Law
Source & credit — Free Law Project / CourtListener
Every opinion in this dataset comes from the Free Law Project / CourtListener bulk export of 2026-06-30 (10,798,347 opinions). CourtListener gathered, cleaned, deduplicated and published that record; Free Law Project — the 501(c)(3) non-profit behind it, building free public access to American law since 2010 — pays for it. We sliced and reformatted; they did the hard part. Go to the source: https://www.courtlistener.com.
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Full text of 347,902 Pennsylvania 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):
pa, pacommwct, pasuperct.
Lead opinions and separate opinions; documents under 1 characters excluded.
Slice sha256 57bdfa2b1adaf142e00e44715cf8023f697c5fd8d727e596a1a397485d514ba0 (also in slice.manifest.json).
Composition
Measured on this exact slice: 208,631 documents (60.0%) carry 2,000+
characters of text, 63,389 (18.2%) carry 200-1,999, and 75,882
(21.8%) 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-pa")
Part of the DocketRouter legal corpora: https://huggingface.co/docketx
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