id stringlengths 16 16 | doc_type stringclasses 1
value | jurisdiction stringclasses 1
value | title stringlengths 5 193 | text stringlengths 2 513k | source stringlengths 36 116 | 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 5
values | date timestamp[s]date 1854-12-15 00:00:00 2026-09-10 00:00:00 | extra dict |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
4599249b35a1b32b | opinion | wa | Johnson v. Inslee | NOTICE: SLIP OPINION
(not the court’s final written decision)
The opinion that begins on the next page is a slip opinion. Slip opinions are the
written opinions that are originally filed by the court.
A slip opinion is not necessarily the court’s final written decisi... | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/11264529 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | wa-wash | 2021-10-22T00:00:00 | {
"cl_opinion_id": "11264529",
"cluster_id": "10797855",
"opinion_type": "020lead",
"text_kind": "plain_text",
"source_label": "courtlistener"
} | |
ba69e5ca9dfad15c | opinion | wa | In re Pers. Restraint of Williams | NOTICE: SLIP OPINION
(not the court’s final written decision)
The opinion that begins on the next page is a slip opinion. Slip opinions are the
written opinions that are originally filed by the court.
A slip opinion is not necessarily the court’s final written decisi... | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/11264531 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | wa-wash | 2021-10-07T00:00:00 | {
"cl_opinion_id": "11264531",
"cluster_id": "10797857",
"opinion_type": "020lead",
"text_kind": "plain_text",
"source_label": "courtlistener"
} | |
ff60b05b4177a0c1 | opinion | wa | Dep't of Labor & Indus. v. Tradesmen Int'l, LLC | NOTICE: SLIP OPINION
(not the court’s final written decision)
The opinion that begins on the next page is a slip opinion. Slip opinions are the
written opinions that are originally filed by the court.
A slip opinion is not necessarily the court’s final written decisi... | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/11264528 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | wa-wash | 2021-10-28T00:00:00 | {
"cl_opinion_id": "11264528",
"cluster_id": "10797854",
"opinion_type": "010combined",
"text_kind": "plain_text",
"source_label": "courtlistener"
} | |
8000a38c00980be5 | opinion | wa | Seven Hills, LLC v. Chelan County | " FILE\n (...TRUNCATED) | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/4924604 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | wa-wash | 2021-09-23T00:00:00 | {"cl_opinion_id":"4924604","cluster_id":"10797862","opinion_type":"010combined","text_kind":"plain_t(...TRUNCATED) | |
de673a3a2e2aab39 | opinion | wa | Lake Hills Invs., LLC v. Rushforth Constr. Co., Inc. | " FILE THIS OPINI(...TRUNCATED) | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/4880962 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | wa-wash | 2021-09-02T00:00:00 | {"cl_opinion_id":"4880962","cluster_id":"10797864","opinion_type":"010combined","text_kind":"plain_t(...TRUNCATED) | |
73a904c4f6cc7d9c | opinion | wa | Nyman v. Hanley | " NOTICE: SLIP OPINION\n (not the court’s final w(...TRUNCATED) | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/11264546 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | wa-wash | 2021-07-22T00:00:00 | {"cl_opinion_id":"11264546","cluster_id":"10797872","opinion_type":"020lead","text_kind":"plain_text(...TRUNCATED) | |
ff32bd475cff7b2b | opinion | wa | State v. Knapp | " FILE THIS OPINION WAS(...TRUNCATED) | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/4684476 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | wa-wash | 2021-05-06T00:00:00 | {"cl_opinion_id":"4684476","cluster_id":"10797888","opinion_type":"010combined","text_kind":"plain_t(...TRUNCATED) | |
19f9d534856c5836 | opinion | wa | In re Welfare of K.D. | " NOTICE: SLIP OPINION\n (not the court’s final w(...TRUNCATED) | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/11264547 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | wa-wash | 2021-07-22T00:00:00 | {"cl_opinion_id":"11264547","cluster_id":"10797873","opinion_type":"020lead","text_kind":"plain_text(...TRUNCATED) | |
3497dce3788b93f9 | opinion | wa | In re Recall of Sawant | " NOTICE: SLIP OPINION\n (not the court’s final w(...TRUNCATED) | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/11264569 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | wa-wash | 2021-04-01T00:00:00 | {"cl_opinion_id":"11264569","cluster_id":"10797895","opinion_type":"020lead","text_kind":"plain_text(...TRUNCATED) | |
abe14be28c82e421 | opinion | wa | In re Welfare of M.R. | " NOTICE: SLIP OPINION\n (not the court’s final w(...TRUNCATED) | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/11264607 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | wa-wash | 2022-10-13T00:00:00 | {"cl_opinion_id":"11264607","cluster_id":"10797933","opinion_type":"010combined","text_kind":"plain_(...TRUNCATED) |
Washington Case Law
Full text of 150,274 Washington appellate opinion documents from the public record. The base
slice is 150,239 documents from the Free Law Project / CourtListener bulk export of 2026-06-30.
data/wa-delta-2026-06-29-to-2026-09-11.jsonl.gz ADDS 35 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 (3 court ids, explicit allowlist — never prefix-matched):
wash, washctapp, washterr.
Lead opinions and separate opinions; documents under 1 characters excluded.
Slice sha256 bbeef8b9e605cf2479a33dfb29b0d98c005ed657f6099a3d2ad9347e82b2a5fe (also in slice.manifest.json).
Composition
Measured on this exact slice: 91,345 documents (60.8%) carry 2,000+
characters of text, 45,663 (30.4%) carry 200-1,999, and 13,231
(8.8%) 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-wa")
Part of the DocketRouter legal corpora: https://huggingface.co/docketx
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