Advancing Empirical Legal Scholarship: Federal Appellate Opinions and Rules

Last December I shared XML versions of the U.S. Code and Supreme Court opinions through early 2012. My intent was and remains to facilitate empirical legal scholarship by providing government-authored materials in a machine-readable format.

This post is accompanied by additional documents: opinions and rules of various federal appellate tribunals. As before, I welcome feedback from the academic research community.

Update January 13, 2014: The data is now hosted on Amazon S3 in a requester pays bucket. If you have not properly configured your request, you will receive an “Access Denied” error.

United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit Opinions: ZIP (152 MB)
United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit Opinions: ZIP (311 MB)
United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit Opinions: ZIP (239 MB)
United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit Opinions: ZIP (190 MB)
United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit Opinions: ZIP (409 MB)
United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit Opinions: ZIP (244 MB)
United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit Opinions: ZIP (305 MB)
United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit Opinions: ZIP (263 MB)
United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Opinions: ZIP (442 MB)
United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit Opinions: ZIP (211 MB)
United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit Opinions: ZIP (180 MB)
United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit Opinions: ZIP (209 MB)
United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit Opinions: ZIP (164 MB)

Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure: ZIP (82 KB)
First Circuit Bankruptcy Appellate Rules: ZIP (37 KB)
Sixth Circuit Bankruptcy Appellate Rules: ZIP (29 KB)
Eighth Circuit Bankruptcy Appellate Rules: ZIP (37 KB)
Ninth Circuit Bankruptcy Appellate Rules: ZIP (86 KB)
Tenth Circuit Bankruptcy Appellate Rules: ZIP (37 KB)

United States Board of Immigration Appeals Opinions: ZIP (21 MB)


Please note, this is a personal project. It is not related to my coursework or research at Stanford University.