Court cases

1Description

Court opinions and filings linked to their docket metadata: case name, court, docket number, dates, judges, reporter citations and outcome. Each opinion carries its text and the authorities it cites, so you can build citation graphs and see how precedent moves between courts. Legal tech teams use it for research and brief analysis tools, litigation funders and insurers for outcome modelling, and ML teams for training legal language models.

Subsets

• Judicial opinions
• Complaints
• Motions and briefs
• Docket metadata
• Legal citations
• Case outcomes

2Schema

3Sample records

Sample record

{
  "case_name": "Hachette Book Group, Inc. v. Internet Archive",
  "court": "Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit",
  "court_id": "ca2",
  "docket_number": "23-1260",
  "date_argued": "2024-06-28",
  "date_filed": "2024-09-04",
  "citations": [
    "115 F.4th 163"
  ],
  "precedential_status": "Published",
  "panel_judges": [
    "Menashi",
    "Robinson",
    "Kahn"
  ],
  "opinion_author": "Robinson",
  "opinion_type": "Majority opinion",
  "lower_court": "U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York (Koeltl, J.)",
  "disposition": "Affirmed",
  "opinion_excerpt": "Defendant-Appellant Internet Archive appeals from a judgment of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Koeltl, J.) denying its motion for summary judgment and granting Plaintiffs-Appellees’ motion for summary judgment. Internet Archive creates digital copies of print books and posts those copies on its website where users may access them in full, for free, in a service it calls the “Free Digital Library.” Other than a period in 2020, Internet Archive has maintained a one-to-one owned-to-loaned ratio for its digital books: Initially, it allowed only as many concurrent “checkouts” of a digital book as it has physical copies in its possession. Through its Open Libraries Project, Internet Archive subsequently expanded its Free Digital Library to include partner libraries’ collections, thereby counting physical copies of a book possessed by partner libraries towards the total number of digital copies it makes available at any given time. Plaintiffs-Appellees - four book publishers - sued Internet Archive in 2020, alleging that its Free Digital Library infringed their copyrights in 127 books and seeking damages and declaratory and injunctive relief. ...",
  "cited_by_count": 15,
  "cited_opinions_count": 24,
  "cited_cases": [
    {
      "case_name": "TWENTIETH CENTURY MUSIC CORP. et al. v. AIKEN",
      "citation": "422 U.S. 151",
      "court": "SCOTUS",
      "year": "1975"
    },
    {
      "case_name": "Sony Corp. of America v. Universal City Studios, Inc.",
      "citation": "464 U.S. 417",
      "court": "SCOTUS",
      "year": "1984"
    },
    {
      "case_name": "Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc. v. Nation Enterprises",
      "citation": "471 U.S. 539",
      "court": "SCOTUS",
      "year": "1985"
    },
    {
      "case_name": "Heidi S. Weissmann, M.D. v. Leonard M. Freeman, M.D.",
      "citation": "868 F.2d 1313",
      "court": "2d Cir.",
      "year": "1989"
    },
    {
      "case_name": "Stewart v. Abend",
      "citation": "495 U.S. 207",
      "court": "SCOTUS",
      "year": "1990"
    },
    {
      "case_name": "Art Rogers v. Jeff Koons Sonnabend Gallery, Inc.",
      "citation": "960 F.2d 301",
      "court": "2d Cir.",
      "year": "1992"
    },
    {
      "case_name": "Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music, Inc.",
      "citation": "510 U.S. 569",
      "court": "SCOTUS",
      "year": "1994"
    },
    {
      "case_name": "American Geophysical Union v. Texaco Inc.",
      "citation": "60 F.3d 913",
      "court": "2d Cir.",
      "year": "1994"
    },
    {
      "case_name": "Faith Ringgold v. Black Entertainment Television, Inc., Home Box Office, Inc.",
      "citation": "126 F.3d 70",
      "court": "2d Cir.",
      "year": "1997"
    },
    {
      "case_name": "Infinity Broadcast Corp. v. Wayne Kirkwood, Doing Business as Media Dial-Up",
      "citation": "150 F.3d 104",
      "court": "2d Cir.",
      "year": "1998"
    }
  ],
  "opinion_pdf_url": "http://www.ca2.uscourts.gov/decisions/isysquery/4df4221e-27a2-49f0-85fb-d6ac0aa62513/1/doc/23-1260_opn.pdf",
  "source_url": "https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/10104144/hachette-book-group-inc-v-internet-archive/"
}

4Uses

• Legal research and citation analysis tools
• Outcome prediction for litigation finance and insurance
• Training and evaluating legal language models
• Judge and court analytics
• Precedent tracking for compliance teams

6Access

The full Court cases dataset (MLC-0703), records on request. Delivered as JSONL, CSV or Parquet under a commercial licence.

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