Advancing Empirical Legal Scholarship: State Materials

Over the past year, I have shared various federal primary legal materials formatted in XML. The project’s focus has been enabling empirical legal scholarship with machine-readable government documents.

This final post is accompanied by state materials, including statutes, court opinions, regulations, and administrative rulings. I continue to welcome feedback from fellow researchers.

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.

Alabama: ZIP (484 MB)
Alaska: ZIP (118 MB)
Arizona: ZIP (218 MB)
Arkansas: ZIP (395 MB)
California: ZIP (1.14 GB)
Colorado: ZIP (328 MB)
Connecticut: ZIP (653 MB)
Delaware: ZIP (178 MB)
District of Columbia: ZIP (149 MB)
Florida: ZIP (849 MB)
Georgia: ZIP (428 MB)
Hawaii: ZIP (142 MB)
Idaho: ZIP (161 MB)
Illinois: ZIP (787 MB)
Indiana: ZIP (371 MB)
Iowa: ZIP (266 MB)
Kansas: ZIP (206 MB)
Kentucky: ZIP (230 MB)
Louisiana: ZIP (890 MB)
Maine: ZIP (111 MB)
Maryland: ZIP (390 MB)
Massachusetts: ZIP (421 MB)
Michigan: ZIP (366 MB)
Minnesota: ZIP (462 MB)
Mississippi: ZIP (287 MB)
Missouri: ZIP (523 MB)
Montana: ZIP (251 MB)
Nebraska: ZIP (218 MB)
Nevada: ZIP (133 MB)
New Hampshire: ZIP (138 MB)
New Jersey: ZIP (475 MB)
New Mexico: ZIP (190 MB)
New York: ZIP (2.40 GB)
North Carolina: ZIP (539 MB)
North Dakota: ZIP (125 MB)
Ohio: ZIP (880 MB)
Oklahoma: ZIP (435 MB)
Oregon: ZIP (358 MB)
Pennsylvania: ZIP (663 MB)
Rhode Island: ZIP (268 MB)
South Carolina: ZIP (192 MB)
South Dakota: ZIP (118 MB)
Tennessee: ZIP (406 MB)
Texas: ZIP (1.31 GB)
Utah: ZIP (194 MB)
Vermont: ZIP (103 MB)
Virginia: ZIP (254 MB)
Washington: ZIP (546 MB)
West Virginia: ZIP (196 MB)
Wisconsin: ZIP (334 MB)
Wyoming: ZIP (129 MB)


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