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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
5fd3cca92e488f7d | opinion | tn | Jonathan King v. Dean Chase | 03/17/2021
IN THE COURT OF APPEALS OF TENNESSEE
AT NASHVILLE
December 9, 2020 Session
JONATHAN KING, ET AL. v. DEA... | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/4668948 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | tn-tennctapp | 2021-03-17T00:00:00 | {
"cl_opinion_id": "4668948",
"cluster_id": "4865169",
"opinion_type": "010combined",
"text_kind": "plain_text",
"source_label": "courtlistener"
} | |
e002775dfff45a12 | opinion | tn | Outpost Solar, LLC v. Henry, Henry & Underwood, P. C. | 03/17/2021
IN THE COURT OF APPEALS OF TENNESSEE
AT NASHVILLE
May 6, 2020 Session
OUTPOST SOLAR, LLC ET AL. v. HENRY, HENRY & UNDERWOOD, P.C.
... | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/4668947 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | tn-tennctapp | 2021-03-17T00:00:00 | {
"cl_opinion_id": "4668947",
"cluster_id": "4865168",
"opinion_type": "010combined",
"text_kind": "plain_text",
"source_label": "courtlistener"
} | |
b31091d22ae6c489 | opinion | tn | State of Tennessee v. Brandon Deshun McAlister | " 09/22/202(...TRUNCATED) | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/4924543 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | tn-tenncrimapp | 2021-09-22T00:00:00 | {"cl_opinion_id":"4924543","cluster_id":"5106163","opinion_type":"010combined","text_kind":"plain_te(...TRUNCATED) | |
24fe3618b30b21dc | opinion | tn | State of Tennessee v. Gary Wayne Garrett | " 03/08/202(...TRUNCATED) | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/6321400 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | tn-tenncrimapp | 2022-03-08T00:00:00 | {"cl_opinion_id":"6321400","cluster_id":"6449289","opinion_type":"010combined","text_kind":"plain_te(...TRUNCATED) | |
64a90c1c5eba33d6 | opinion | tn | Donald R. Wright v. Carol Sieglitz | " 01/(...TRUNCATED) | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/4653381 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | tn-tennctapp | 2021-01-21T00:00:00 | {"cl_opinion_id":"4653381","cluster_id":"4849602","opinion_type":"010combined","text_kind":"plain_te(...TRUNCATED) | |
548dc9d196f8d962 | opinion | tn | First National Bank of Rogersville v. Hawkins County | " \n CARNEY, Judge. \n Hawkins County and the State of Tennessee have appealed from a judgment of $4(...TRUNCATED) | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/5036927 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | tn-tennctapp | 1970-03-11T00:00:00 | {"cl_opinion_id":"5036927","cluster_id":"5213183","opinion_type":"020lead","text_kind":"html_with_ci(...TRUNCATED) | |
585c3ae6edfe137b | opinion | tn | State ex rel. Underwood v. Adamson | " \n OPINION \n SANDERS, Judge. \n This is an appeal from a decree of the Circuit Court of Hamilton (...TRUNCATED) | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/5036928 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | tn-tennctapp | 1970-10-05T00:00:00 | {"cl_opinion_id":"5036928","cluster_id":"5213184","opinion_type":"020lead","text_kind":"html_with_ci(...TRUNCATED) | |
f6150d089f7afa2f | opinion | tn | Hilton v. Hilton | " \n OPINION \n PARROTT, Judge. \n This appeal from the Circuit Court of Knox County comes by writ o(...TRUNCATED) | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/5036929 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | tn-tennctapp | 1970-11-11T00:00:00 | {"cl_opinion_id":"5036929","cluster_id":"5213185","opinion_type":"020lead","text_kind":"html_with_ci(...TRUNCATED) | |
1ab6344d7efc9776 | opinion | tn | In Re Crystal W. | " (...TRUNCATED) | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/4653647 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | tn-tennctapp | 2021-01-21T00:00:00 | {"cl_opinion_id":"4653647","cluster_id":"4849868","opinion_type":"010combined","text_kind":"plain_te(...TRUNCATED) | |
5da1e5934d36316f | opinion | tn | In Re Investigation Of Law Solutions Chicago, LLC | " 01/22/2021(...TRUNCATED) | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/4653724 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | tn-tennctapp | 2021-01-22T00:00:00 | {"cl_opinion_id":"4653724","cluster_id":"4849945","opinion_type":"010combined","text_kind":"plain_te(...TRUNCATED) |
Tennessee 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 92,508 Tennessee appellate opinion documents from the public record, sliced from the Free Law Project / CourtListener bulk export of 2026-06-30.
Court coverage (4 court ids, explicit allowlist — never prefix-matched):
tenn, tenncrimapp, tennctapp, tennsuperct.
Lead opinions and separate opinions; documents under 1 characters excluded.
Slice sha256 8e3af6f9a682529034107327ddc0df1f9e08ec6842bd54bf15ac9de92cfec92b (also in slice.manifest.json).
Composition
Measured on this exact slice: 87,628 documents (94.7%) carry 2,000+
characters of text, 4,502 (4.9%) carry 200-1,999, and 378
(0.4%) 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-tn")
Part of the DocketRouter legal corpora: https://huggingface.co/docketx
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