Indian Supreme Court Judgments in English and Regional Languages, 1950-2025

Indian Supreme Court judgments from 1950 to 2025, sourced from the eCourts website. The dataset includes raw metadata in JSON format and structured metadata in Parquet, with judgments available in English and regional Indian languages. It is hosted on AWS Open Data and published by Dattam Labs under a CC-BY-4.0 license.

Use Cases

• Train multilingual legal language models based on judgments available in English and regional languages.
• Analyze trends in Indian jurisprudence over time based on the 75-year temporal coverage.
• Extract structured metadata for legal citation networks based on the provided Parquet files.
• Conduct comparative legal linguistics using the parallel text in different languages.

Strengths

• Covers a 75-year time range from 1950 to 2025.
• Provides data in multiple formats, including raw JSON and structured Parquet metadata.
• Includes judgments in both English and multiple regional Indian languages.

Limitations

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

Provenance

Source

eCourts website

Collection Method

Downloaded from the eCourts website.

Time Range

1950 to 2025

Freshness

Last updated date is unknown.

Geography

India