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
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.
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
- Downloads last month
- 642