Datasets:
id string | doc_type string | jurisdiction string | title string | text string | source string | license string | retrieved_at timestamp[s] | citation string | court string | date timestamp[s] | extra dict |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
bc9bf51f90f00b98 | opinion | ct | Lime Rock Park, LLC v. Planning & Zoning Commission | ***********************************************
The “officially released” date that appears near the be-
ginning of each opinion is the date the opinion will be pub-
lished in the Connecticut Law Journal or the date it was
released as a slip opinion. The operative date for the be-
ginning of all time periods for fi... | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/4588325 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | ct-conn | 2020-05-22T00:00:00 | {
"cl_opinion_id": "4588325",
"cluster_id": "4807978",
"opinion_type": "010combined",
"text_kind": "plain_text",
"source_label": "courtlistener"
} | |
6f33e8c5b37ffe08 | opinion | ct | Town of Woodstock v. Williams |
The defendants’ petition for certification for appeal from the Appellate Court, 1 Conn. App. 505 , is denied.
| cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/7839001 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | ct-conn | 1984-05-23T00:00:00 | {
"cl_opinion_id": "7839001",
"cluster_id": "7891891",
"opinion_type": "020lead",
"text_kind": "html_with_citations",
"source_label": "courtlistener"
} | |
bb1fab0974f8cc53 | opinion | ct | State v. Vilchel | " \n \n \n \n Opinion\n \n \n \n HARPER, J.\n \n \n The defendant, Ignacio Vilchel, was convi(...TRUNCATED) | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/2113602 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | ct-connappct | 2009-02-03T00:00:00 | {"cl_opinion_id":"2113602","cluster_id":"2113602","opinion_type":"010combined","text_kind":"html_wit(...TRUNCATED) | |
f95bac610a130965 | opinion | ct | State v. Huey | " \n The defendant’s petition for certification for appeal from the Appellate Court, 1 Conn. App(...TRUNCATED) | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/7839004 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | ct-conn | 1984-06-20T00:00:00 | {"cl_opinion_id":"7839004","cluster_id":"7891894","opinion_type":"020lead","text_kind":"html_with_ci(...TRUNCATED) | |
441bc69548e35d93 | opinion | ct | S.K.G. Associates Inc. v. Zoning Commission | " \n The plaintiffs petition for certification for appeal from the Appellate Court is dismissed. \n (...TRUNCATED) | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/7839005 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | ct-conn | 1984-06-05T00:00:00 | {"cl_opinion_id":"7839005","cluster_id":"7891895","opinion_type":"020lead","text_kind":"html_with_ci(...TRUNCATED) | |
34a0a717e76797ef | opinion | ct | State v. Moulton | " \n \n \n The petition by the state of Connecticut for certification for appeal from the Appellate(...TRUNCATED) | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/2097911 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | ct-conn | 2010-06-24T00:00:00 | {"cl_opinion_id":"2097911","cluster_id":"2097911","opinion_type":"010combined","text_kind":"html_wit(...TRUNCATED) | |
b76a8007456c20ef | opinion | ct | Newsome v. Commissioner of Correction | " \n The petitioner Shawn Newsome’s petition for certification for appeal from the Appellate Court(...TRUNCATED) | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/7847394 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | ct-conn | 2001-09-20T00:00:00 | {"cl_opinion_id":"7847394","cluster_id":"7899150","opinion_type":"020lead","text_kind":"html_with_ci(...TRUNCATED) | |
529f7e658933c5e8 | opinion | ct | State v. Madagoski | " \n The defendant’s petition for certification for appeal from the Appellate Court, 59 Conn. Ap(...TRUNCATED) | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/7846969 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | ct-conn | 2001-01-03T00:00:00 | {"cl_opinion_id":"7846969","cluster_id":"7898757","opinion_type":"020lead","text_kind":"html_with_ci(...TRUNCATED) | |
a93ce98d0dbc94d9 | opinion | ct | State v. Torres | " \n The defendant’s petition for certification for appeal from the Appellate Court, 60 Conn. Ap(...TRUNCATED) | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/7846970 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | ct-conn | 2001-01-03T00:00:00 | {"cl_opinion_id":"7846970","cluster_id":"7898758","opinion_type":"020lead","text_kind":"html_with_ci(...TRUNCATED) | |
5d690d693fcabfd3 | opinion | ct | State v. McCullough | " \n The defendant’s petition for certification for appeal from the Appellate Court, 88 Conn. Ap(...TRUNCATED) | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/7849083 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | ct-conn | 2005-04-27T00:00:00 | {"cl_opinion_id":"7849083","cluster_id":"7900709","opinion_type":"020lead","text_kind":"html_with_ci(...TRUNCATED) |
Connecticut 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.
Free Law Project is a non-profit, and it is worth supporting: https://free.law/donate/. If this data is useful to you, credit Free Law Project and CourtListener too, and consider going straight to the source: CourtListener runs its own API and MCP server.
Full text of 61,409 Connecticut appellate opinion documents from the public record, sliced from the Free Law Project / CourtListener bulk export of 2026-06-30.
Court coverage (2 court ids, explicit allowlist — never prefix-matched):
conn, connappct.
Lead opinions and separate opinions; documents under 1 characters excluded.
Slice sha256 093f600048b8a3c5d644647eb66a0fc586022eafb75da07cc1b8227106c97b62 (also in slice.manifest.json).
Composition
Measured on this exact slice: 43,395 documents (70.7%) carry 2,000+
characters of text, 7,675 (12.5%) carry 200-1,999, and 10,339
(16.8%) 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-ct")
Part of the DocketRouter legal corpora: https://huggingface.co/docketx
- Downloads last month
- 87