Indian High Court Judgments from 25 Courts, PDF and Parquet Formats

Judgments from 25 Indian High Courts downloaded from the ecourts website. The dataset includes raw metadata in JSON format and structured metadata in Parquet format, with PDF files compressed for size optimization. It is made available by Dattam Labs under a CC-BY-4.0 license.

Use Cases

• Analyze legal reasoning patterns based on judgment text
• Extract structured metadata for case categorization based on Parquet files
• Study judicial trends across Indian states based on coverage of 25 high courts
• Build text retrieval systems for legal documents based on compressed PDF files

Strengths

• Contains judgments from 25 Indian High Courts
• Provides both raw JSON metadata and structured Parquet metadata
• Files are compressed to optimize size while preserving content and visual appearance

Limitations

• Row count and dataset size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified

Provenance

Source

ecourts website

Collection Method

Downloaded from the ecourts website and processed by Dattam Labs

Geography

India