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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
0e4c991511950a6f | opinion | nc | Mugno v. Mugno |
HUNTER, JR., Robert N., Judge.
Richard Mugno (“Mr. Mugno”) and Liberty Computer Systems, Inc. (“LCS”), (collectively “defendants”) appeal the trial court’s equitable distribution order granting an unequal distribution of the marital estate in favor of Robyn Mugno (“Mrs. Mugno”). On appeal, defendants arg... | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/1394122 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | nc-ncctapp | 2010-07-06T00:00:00 | {
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} | |
99b6e00cc9d82f55 | opinion | nc | Lewis v. Transit Mgmt. Of Charlotte | IN THE COURT OF APPEALS OF NORTH CAROLINA
No. COA16-69
Filed: 6 December 2016
From the North Carolina Industrial Commission, I.C. No. W28180
KELLY F. LEWIS, Employee, Plaintiff,
v.
TRANSIT MANAGEMENT OF CHARLOTTE, Emplo... | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/4104701 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | nc-ncctapp | 2016-12-06T00:00:00 | {
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"cluster_id": "4327440",
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"text_kind": "plain_text",
"source_label": "courtlistener"
} | |
0053f05cca9df4e6 | opinion | nc | State v. Goble |
BEASLEY, Judge.
Defendant appeals from trial court’s denial of his motion to dismiss a charge of felony failure to appear, and a request that jurors receive an instruction on a lesser included offense. Because the State presented substantial evidence of Defendant’s guilt, and an instruction on the lesser... | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/1394137 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | nc-ncctapp | 2010-07-06T00:00:00 | {
"cl_opinion_id": "1394137",
"cluster_id": "1394137",
"opinion_type": "010combined",
"text_kind": "html_with_citations",
"source_label": "courtlistener"
} | |
b624dfc22f855d8b | opinion | nc | Echols v. Zarn, Inc. |
448 S.E.2d 289 (1994)
116 N.C. App. 364
Cynthia L. ECHOLS, Plaintiff-Appellant,
v.
ZARN, INC. and Edith Barnett, Defendants-Appellees.
No. 9317SC325.
Court of Appeals of North Carolina.
September 20, 1994.
*290 Patterson, Harkavy & Lawrence by Donnell Van Noppen III, Melinda Law... | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/1399523 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | nc-ncctapp | 1994-09-20T00:00:00 | {
"cl_opinion_id": "1399523",
"cluster_id": "1399523",
"opinion_type": "010combined",
"text_kind": "html_with_citations",
"source_label": "courtlistener"
} | |
e1b4cbd4f92bf6e5 | opinion | nc | WOODLIFF v. Fitzpatrick |
BEASLEY, Judge.
Ernest Todd Woodliff (Plaintiff) appeals from an Opinion and Award of the North Carolina Industrial Commission (Commission) denying Plaintiff benefits under the Workers’ Compensation Act (Act). Specifically, Plaintiff challenges the Commission’s jurisdictional finding of insufficient evid... | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/1394204 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | nc-ncctapp | 2010-07-06T00:00:00 | {
"cl_opinion_id": "1394204",
"cluster_id": "1394204",
"opinion_type": "010combined",
"text_kind": "html_with_citations",
"source_label": "courtlistener"
} | |
faf8c056df5ae82c | opinion | nc | Hanson v. LEGASUS OF NORTH CAROLINA, LLC |
STROUD, Judge.
Plaintiffs sued defendants for money they alleged defendants owed them pursuant to an agreement between the parties. The trial court entered judgment in favor of defendants, concluding that the agreement demonstrated by the evidence was required by N.C. Gen. Stat. § 22-2 , the Statute of ... | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/1394211 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | nc-ncctapp | 2010-07-06T00:00:00 | {
"cl_opinion_id": "1394211",
"cluster_id": "1394211",
"opinion_type": "010combined",
"text_kind": "html_with_citations",
"source_label": "courtlistener"
} | |
03858ace66690d94 | opinion | nc | State of North Carolina Department of Health & Human Services v. Thompkins |
ERVIN, Judge.
Defendant Anna Marie Thompkins, Executrix of the Estate of Sallie Dye Anthony, appeals from an order awarding summary judgment in favor of the Plaintiff Division of Medical Assistance of the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services in the
*286
amount of $52,575.... | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/1394214 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | nc-ncctapp | 2010-07-06T00:00:00 | {
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"cluster_id": "1394214",
"opinion_type": "010combined",
"text_kind": "html_with_citations",
"source_label": "courtlistener"
} | |
3ae5200bd9db4922 | opinion | nc | State v. Bennett |
Upon consideration of the petition filed on the 19th of November 2018 by Defendant in this matter for discretionary review of the decision of the North Carolina Court of Appeals pursuant to G.S. 7A-31, the following order was entered and is hereby certified to the North Carolina Court of Appeals:
"Allowed by order... | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/7401135 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | nc-nc | 2019-03-27T00:00:00 | {
"cl_opinion_id": "7401135",
"cluster_id": "7479369",
"opinion_type": "020lead",
"text_kind": "html_with_citations",
"source_label": "courtlistener"
} | |
8b6ab7124fb8f16a | opinion | nc | State v. Wolfe |
STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA
v.
DANA EUGENE WOLFE
No. COA08-38.
Court of Appeals of North Carolina
Filed April 7, 2009.
This case not for publication
Leslie C. Rawls for defendant-appellant.
Attorney General Roy Cooper, by Assistant Attorney General Margaret A. Force for State.
ERVIN, Judge.
O... | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/1282867 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | nc-ncctapp | 2009-04-07T00:00:00 | {
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d45f68654dde9385 | opinion | nc | State v. Weldy | " IN THE COURT OF APPEALS OF NORTH CAROLINA\n\n No(...TRUNCATED) | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/4538167 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | nc-ncctapp | 2020-06-02T00:00:00 | {"cl_opinion_id":"4538167","cluster_id":"4757820","opinion_type":"010combined","text_kind":"plain_te(...TRUNCATED) |
North Carolina Case Law
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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 148,915 North Carolina 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):
nc, ncctapp.
Lead opinions and separate opinions; documents under 1 characters excluded.
Slice sha256 e2e023088a83eb458a03a8345a64df0dae10d5a4746cdc57d35be64e6446b54f (also in slice.manifest.json).
Composition
Measured on this exact slice: 88,200 documents (59.2%) carry 2,000+
characters of text, 35,140 (23.6%) carry 200-1,999, and 25,575
(17.2%) 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-nc")
Part of the DocketRouter legal corpora: https://huggingface.co/docketx
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