DataForge US Court Opinions Metadata, Dockets & Judges (CourtListener)

Open Data: US Court Opinions Metadata, Dockets & Judges (CourtListener) — part of the DataForge Open Data program. Full production data packages. Free for academic and personal use under CC BY-NC 4.0 (DataForge curated layer; attribution + backlink required). Commercial use requires a DataForge commercial license. Upstream terms (public domain / CC BY / OGL where applicable) continue to apply to the underlying data. Also served (with sha256 + Range resume) at https://dl.zalize.com/open-data. Upstream source: CourtListener / Free Law Project official bulk data (opinion clusters, dockets, judges; metadata + derived signals only) License: CC BY-NC 4.0 (DataForge curated layer) / commercial license — upstream: CourtListener Public Domain Mark 1.0 (no opinion text) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) Field dictionaries: dataforge-pipelines/datasets · portal page: https://data.zalize.com/datasets/us-court-opinions-dockets-judges-dataset Attribution: DataForge (data.zalize.com), built from CourtListener / Free Law Project public-domain bulk data — data.zalize.com Packages included: courtlistener-tier1-S-2026-08-04 — 2,286,889 rows, 0.07 GB, sha256 3cec1e8d268d5d05e94a5bdd55df9c5fd06411a1f578ddbaae4efe4af29061c6 — US Supreme Court complete decision metadata (1754+): every SCOTUS opinion cluster with SCDB crosswalk, citations, opinion-level metadata, judges and court reference tables courtlistener-tier1-M-2026-08-04 — 7,395,271 rows, 0.37 GB, sha256 02dc9e0e11de170162a197a99196331fb537bfb1bff6918ce5ffc3a1d4e944bf — All 13 federal circuit courts + SCOTUS: decision metadata, opinion-level records with author IDs, reporter citations, judge profiles + positions, court-year volume stats