metadata

configs:
  - config_name: default
    data_files:
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        path: data/us-*

US-LegalKit

This dataset consists of all state supreme court verdicts from 1845 - 2024. This does not include New York where the appellate court is the highest division. This is in progress as a separate batch.

A version will be uploaded ASAP with the actual document content as well.

Project Progress and Data Distribution

TODO List

State Supreme Court verdicts
US Federal Code
State Code
US Federal Supreme Court verdicts
New York Appellate court verdicts
Add complete documents to US Federal Code
Add complete documents to State Supreme Court verdicts
Conversational Dataset
Judge Dataset

Current Distribution

State	Count
Oklahoma	33,709
Pennsylvania	24,980
Georgia	20,706
Alabama	19,081
Montana	19,044
Arkansas	16,811
Nebraska	16,060
Iowa	16,044
Florida	16,033
West Virginia	15,416
Louisiana	15,263
Delaware	14,792
Mississippi	14,642
Minnesota	14,511
North Dakota	13,364
North Carolina	12,541
Kansas	12,173
Washington	12,079
Wisconsin	11,996
Wyoming	11,878
Illinois	11,087
Massachusetts	10,996
Colorado	10,945
South Carolina	10,620
Indiana	10,583
Maine	9,758
Hawaii	9,624
Oregon	9,113
Rhode Island	9,051
Missouri	8,625
New Jersey	8,565
Vermont	8,445
Connecticut	8,096
Michigan	8,059
Kentucky	8,044
Virginia	7,930
South Dakota	7,894
Utah	7,769
Nevada	7,147
Arizona	7,032
Texas	6,880
New Hampshire	6,502
Alaska	6,498
New Mexico	5,970
Tennessee	4,497
California	2,223

As we can see here some states tend to take cases to the supreme court much more frequently than others.

References

Citation

@misc{US-LegalKit,
  author = {Tim Dolan},
  title = {US-LegalKit: Supreme Court Decisions},
  year = {2024},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/macadeliccc/US-LegalKit}},
}