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+---
+language:
+- en
+license: other
+task_categories:
+- text-generation
+- text-classification
+- text-retrieval
+tags:
+- legal
+- law
+- india
+- supreme-court
+- court-judgments
+pretty_name: Supreme Court of India Judgments (1950-2025)
+size_categories:
+- 10K<n<100K
+---
+
+# Supreme Court of India Judgments Dataset (1950-2025)
+
+## Dataset Description
+
+This dataset contains a comprehensive collection of judgments and orders from the Supreme Court of India, spanning from its inception in 1950 up to early 2025. 
+
+### Dataset Summary
+
+- **Total Documents:** 26,688
+- **Total Tokens:** ~196.9 Million (counted using `cl100k_base` encoding)
+- **Format:** JSONL (JSON Lines)
+- **Language:** English
+- **Time Range:** 1950 - 2025
+
+### Data Fields
+
+Each entry in the `.jsonl` file contains:
+
+- `text`: The full-length text of the judgment.
+- `metadata`:
+    - `source`: The original PDF filename.
+    - `year`: The year the judgment was delivered.
+    - `path`: The relative directory path in the original source structure.
+
+### Example Instance
+
+```json
+{
+  "text": "Chanan Singh Son Of Kartar Singh vs State Of Haryana...",
+  "metadata": {
+    "source": "Chanan_Singh_Son_Of_Kartar_Singh_vs_State_Of_Haryana_on_2_April_1971_1.PDF",
+    "year": "1971",
+    "path": "1971/Chanan_Singh_Son_Of_Kartar_Singh_vs_State_Of_Haryana_on_2_April_1971_1.PDF"
+  }
+}
+```
+
+## Dataset Creation
+
+The dataset was compiled by extracting text from digitized versions of Supreme Court judgments. The documents are organized chronologically by year.
+
+## Applications
+
+This dataset is intended for researchers and developers working on:
+- **Legal NLP:** Precedence search, citation analysis, and legal reasoning.
+- **Text Summarization:** Generating concise summaries of long legal documents.
+- **Classification:** Identifying case types, statutes, or legal themes.
+- **Large Language Models:** Fine-tuning models on formal Indian legal English.
+
+## Considerations & Limitations
+
+- **Source Accuracy:** The text is extracted from PDFs; while generally accurate, minor OCR or extraction artifacts may exist.
+- **Sensitivity:** This data consists of public court records. Users should ensure their use cases comply with ethical standards and regional data privacy regulations.
+- **Legal Advice:** This dataset is for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute legal advice.
+
+## License
+
+The judgments of the Supreme Court of India are public records. Under Section 52(1)(q)(iv) of the Indian Copyright Act, 1957, the reproduction or publication of any judgment or order of a court, tribunal, or other judicial authority does not constitute an infringement of copyright, unless the reproduction or publication is prohibited by the court or authority.