README.md

metadata

task_categories:
  - fill-mask
language:
  - de
tags:
  - legal
  - case_law
  - german
pretty_name: German Case Law Dump
size_categories:
  - 10K<n<100K
license: cc0-1.0

German Case Law Dump

This dataset contains 78,909 documents of current German court decisions (as of July 30, 2025) collected from rechtsprechung-im-internet.de.

The documents are sourced from various courts and types:

Court	Types	Documents
BAG	KARE	7,033
BFH	STRE	11,150
BGH	JURE	6,164
BGH	KORE	25,992
BPatG	JURE	5,866
BPatG	MPRE	1,311
BSG	KSRE	6,121
BVerfG	KVRE	5,507
BVerwG	JURE	553
BVerwG	WBRE	9,210

Dataset Structure

• The dataset is provided in JSONL (JSON Lines) format.
• Each line represents a single case law.

Features

Each JSON object contains the following fields:

• doknr – Internal document number
• ecli – European Case Law Identifier
• gertyp – Court type (e.g., BGH, BFH, BVerfG)
• gerort – Court location
• spruchkoerper – Judicial panel / chamber
• entsch-datum – Decision date
• aktenzeichen – Case number
• doktyp – Document type
• norm – Cited legal norms
• vorinstanz – Lower courts
• region – Regional assignment
• mitwirkung – Participating judges
• titelzeile – Title
• leitsatz – Headnote
• sonstosatz – Other leading sentence
• tenor – Ruling (tenor)
• tatbestand – Statement
• entscheidungsgruende – Reasons for decision
• gruende – Additional reasons
• abwmeinung – Dissenting opinion
• sonstlt – Other headnotes
• identifier – Unique identifier
• coverage – Coverage information
• language – Language
• publisher – Publisher
• accessRights – Access rights