COLD Cases is a dataset of 8.3 million United States legal decisions with text and metadata, formatted as compressed parquet files. If you'd like to view a sample of the dataset formatted as JSON Lines, you can view one here
This dataset exists to support the open legal movement exemplified by projects like
Pile of Law and
LegalBench.
A key input to legal understanding projects is caselaw -- the published, precedential decisions of… See the full description on the dataset page:
https://huggingface.co/datasets/harvard-lil/cold-cases.