incrediblecrab/scotus-opinions

Supreme Court of the United States: Opinions

The document files that the Supreme Court's website lists under Opinions in its footer, one config per collection, each row a file with the file itself, byte for byte, and its text. Nothing here is edited by hand, and no text is corrected, normalized or generated. The pipeline and its tests are in github.com/incrediblecrab/scotus-research-service-products, and this card is rendered from the collections' manifests in the same commit.

Collections

Config	Files	Size	Listed now	Last complete run	Status
opinions-of-the-court	481	0.20 GB	391 of 395	2026-10-05T04:28:04Z	Opinions of the Court: 4 listed files not stored
opinions-relating-to-orders	118	60.5 MB	118 of 199	2026-09-29T04:36:04Z	Opinions Relating to Orders: 1 listing page held; freshness unverified; 2 partitions not yet complete; 89 listed files not stored
in-chambers-opinions	1	42 KB	1 of 1	2026-10-05T04:30:29Z	In-Chambers Opinions: every listed file
us-reports	621	50.16 GB	621 of 621	2026-10-05T04:30:31Z	U. S. Reports: every listed file
online-sources-cited-in-opinions	1,223	1.59 GB	1,223 of 1,223	2026-10-05T04:30:32Z	Online Sources Cited in Opinions: every listed file
media-files-cited-in-opinions	10	1.39 GB	10 of 10	2026-10-05T04:30:58Z	Media Files Cited in Opinions: every listed file

Each collection's card, linked from its name, says what it holds and where the gaps are, which files failed and why, what is verbatim, and what each column means. Every config has the same columns.

Use

from datasets import load_dataset
ds = load_dataset("incrediblecrab/scotus-opinions", "opinions-of-the-court", split="train")

-- DuckDB, straight from the Hub, without the file bytes
SELECT id, term, date, docket, title, text_source FROM 'hf://datasets/incrediblecrab/scotus-opinions/opinions-of-the-court/data/*.parquet' WHERE listed ORDER BY date DESC LIMIT 10;

Files

• {collection}/data/{partition}.parquet: the collection's rows, sorted by id.
• {collection}/manifest.json: per partition, the row count, SHA-256 and summary counts; the files that failed and why; the listing pages read; the last 20 runs.
• {collection}/README.md: the collection's card.

Related datasets

• incrediblecrab/scotus-filing-and-rules: Filing & Rules
• incrediblecrab/scotus-oral-arguments: Oral Arguments
• incrediblecrab/scotus-case-documents: Case Documents
• incrediblecrab/scotus-news-media: News Media
• incrediblecrab/scotus-about: About
• incrediblecrab/scotus-cases: Cases, one row per docket in each term, assembled from the Opinions, Oral Arguments and Case Documents datasets and the Court's docket pages

License

• opinions-of-the-court, opinions-relating-to-orders, in-chambers-opinions, us-reports: The Supreme Court's own pages and documents (including its opinions, orders, calendars, lists and journals, its rules, forms and guides, its press releases, media advisories and reports, and its About pages) are works of the United States Government, which are not subject to copyright in the United States (17 U.S.C. § 105). This card does not give legal advice; check the status of any document you rely on.
• online-sources-cited-in-opinions: Each PDF is the Court's capture of web material that an opinion cites, published on sites other than the Court's, and this dataset makes no claim about its copyright status. This card does not give legal advice.
• media-files-cited-in-opinions: The Court posts these files because an opinion cites them; its media page gives as an example "a video or audio file that is part of the record in the lower court". This dataset makes no claim about their copyright status. This card does not give legal advice.

The pipeline's code is under the MIT License (github.com/incrediblecrab/scotus-research-service-products).