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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
d69975907aa82cc6 | opinion | ia | State of Iowa v. Thomas C. Casper | IN THE SUPREME COURT OF IOWA
No. 19–0849
Submitted October 15, 2020—Filed November 20, 2020
STATE OF IOWA,
Appellee,
vs.
THOMAS CHRISTOPHOR CASPER,
Appellant.
On review from the Iowa Court of Appeals.
Appeal from the Iowa Distr... | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/4588378 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | ia-iowa | 2020-11-20T00:00:00 | {
"cl_opinion_id": "4588378",
"cluster_id": "4808031",
"opinion_type": "010combined",
"text_kind": "plain_text",
"source_label": "courtlistener"
} | |
1b9b65e423aa0d4d | opinion | ia | State of Iowa v. Christopher Lee Roby Jr. | IN THE SUPREME COURT OF IOWA
No. 19–0551
Submitted September 17, 2020—Filed November 20, 2020
STATE OF IOWA,
Appellee,
vs.
CHRISTOPHER ROBY,
Appellant.
On review from the Iowa Court of Appeals.
Appeal from the Iowa District Co... | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/4588379 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | ia-iowa | 2020-11-20T00:00:00 | {
"cl_opinion_id": "4588379",
"cluster_id": "4808032",
"opinion_type": "010combined",
"text_kind": "plain_text",
"source_label": "courtlistener"
} | |
17fe6a3065fbbe01 | opinion | ia | Iowa Supreme Court Attorney Disciplinary Board v. David Ebong Akpan | IN THE SUPREME COURT OF IOWA
No. 20–0187
Submitted September 16, 2020—Filed November 20, 2020
IOWA SUPREME COURT ATTORNEY DISCIPLINARY BOARD,
Complainant,
vs.
DAVID EBONG AKPAN,
Respondent.
On review of the report of the Iowa Supreme Court G... | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/4588380 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | ia-iowa | 2020-11-20T00:00:00 | {
"cl_opinion_id": "4588380",
"cluster_id": "4808033",
"opinion_type": "010combined",
"text_kind": "plain_text",
"source_label": "courtlistener"
} | |
d9fdb837142f7ea0 | opinion | ia | State of Iowa v. Gregory Michael Davis | IN THE SUPREME COURT OF IOWA
No. 19–0214
Submitted October 14, 2020—Filed November 13, 2020
STATE OF IOWA,
Appellee,
vs.
GREGORY MICHAEL DAVIS,
Appellant.
On review from the Iowa Court of Appeals.
Appeal from the Iowa District C... | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/4588381 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | ia-iowa | 2020-11-13T00:00:00 | {
"cl_opinion_id": "4588381",
"cluster_id": "4808034",
"opinion_type": "010combined",
"text_kind": "plain_text",
"source_label": "courtlistener"
} | |
47c611cb6f8ebcd5 | opinion | ia | Stuart v. State Ex Rel. Jannings | " \n \n \n RAWLINGS, Justice.\n \n \n Debra Lee Stuart (defendant) takes permissive appeal from c(...TRUNCATED) | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/2073191 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | ia-iowa | 1977-05-25T00:00:00 | {"cl_opinion_id":"2073191","cluster_id":"2073191","opinion_type":"010combined","text_kind":"html_wit(...TRUNCATED) | |
0eb5183c2068c964 | opinion | ia | A. C. Nelsen Auto Sales, Inc. v. Turner | " \n \n \n Mantz, J.\n \n \n Plaintiff’s suit is in replevin to secure possession of a certain (...TRUNCATED) | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/2074065 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | ia-iowa | 1950-09-19T00:00:00 | {"cl_opinion_id":"2074065","cluster_id":"2074065","opinion_type":"010combined","text_kind":"html_wit(...TRUNCATED) | |
571c1d63c6d96563 | opinion | ia | Upon the Petition of Kent D. Langholz | " IN THE SUPREME COURT OF IOWA\n No. 15–0547\n\(...TRUNCATED) | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/4104072 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | ia-iowa | 2016-12-02T00:00:00 | {"cl_opinion_id":"4104072","cluster_id":"4326811","opinion_type":"010combined","text_kind":"plain_te(...TRUNCATED) | |
976d31f6c30b8b4e | opinion | ia | Iowa Supreme Court Attorney Disciplinary Board v. R. Scott Rhinehart | " IN THE SUPREME COURT OF IOWA\n No. 20–0824\n\n (...TRUNCATED) | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/4653563 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | ia-iowa | 2021-01-08T00:00:00 | {"cl_opinion_id":"4653563","cluster_id":"4849784","opinion_type":"010combined","text_kind":"plain_te(...TRUNCATED) | |
4e81dd52fea4d8b2 | opinion | ia | State of Iowa v. Trekel Marquis Barker | " IN THE COURT OF APPEALS OF IOWA\n\n No. 18-17(...TRUNCATED) | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/4470773 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | ia-iowactapp | 2020-01-09T00:00:00 | {"cl_opinion_id":"4470773","cluster_id":"4693481","opinion_type":"010combined","text_kind":"plain_te(...TRUNCATED) | |
26f13fa51eab97be | opinion | ia | "Tyler Dix, Jason Cattell, Jimmy McCann, and Julie Eller v. Casey's General Stores, Inc. and Casey's(...TRUNCATED) | " IN THE COURT OF APPEALS OF IOWA\n\n No. 18-1464(...TRUNCATED) | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/4470770 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | ia-iowactapp | 2020-01-09T00:00:00 | {"cl_opinion_id":"4470770","cluster_id":"4693478","opinion_type":"010combined","text_kind":"plain_te(...TRUNCATED) |
Iowa Case Law
Code & tools: github.com/docketx — legal-scrambler pseudonymises a case file on your own hardware before a frontier model sees it; claude-for-legal is the Claude Code plugin (
docketx-open-law) that loads these datasets and checks citations against them.
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 83,272 Iowa 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):
iowa, iowactapp.
Lead opinions and separate opinions; documents under 1 characters excluded.
Slice sha256 145838da38c4f47e08fd83dfab5a28cb899ecd745af0802d44c47999e0fbfa0a (also in slice.manifest.json).
Composition
Measured on this exact slice: 72,155 documents (86.6%) carry 2,000+
characters of text, 5,351 (6.4%) carry 200-1,999, and 5,766
(6.9%) 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-ia")
Part of the DocketRouter legal corpora: https://huggingface.co/docketx
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