---
language: en
pretty_name: IndicSupremeCourtRulings
tags:
  - law
  - legal
  - india
  - supreme-court
license: other
---

# IndicSupremeCourtRulings

## Overview
**IndicSupremeCourtRulings** is a structured metadata dataset of Supreme Court of India judgments, organized by year and month-range. Each row corresponds to a judgment metadata record and includes a link to the original judgment PDF.

## Source
The metadata in this dataset was collected from the official Supreme Court of India website and associated endpoints. This dataset **does not redistribute the PDF files** unless they are already present locally in `judgment_pdf_path`. The canonical source for each judgment is the `judgment_url`.

## Important: Legal/Policy Compliance (India)
By using this dataset, **you agree to comply with all applicable Indian laws and regulations** governing access, use, reproduction, and redistribution of judicial materials and any associated documents.  
You are solely responsible for ensuring that your use of the dataset (including any downloading, copying, processing, or redistribution of judgment PDFs) is lawful in your jurisdiction and under Indian law.

## Dataset Structure
- **Unit of observation:** one metadata record per judgment
- **Key fields:** `case_number`, `diary_number`, `petitioner_respondent`, `bench`, `judgment_url`, `date_from`, `date_to`

## Fields
See `dataset_info` below for the full schema.

---

dataset_info:
  features:
  - name: serial_number
    dtype: string
  - name: diary_number
    dtype: string
  - name: case_number
    dtype: string
  - name: petitioner_respondent
    dtype: string
  - name: advocates
    dtype: string
  - name: bench
    list: string
  - name: judgment_by
    dtype: string
  - name: judgment_url
    dtype: string
  - name: judgment_pdf_path
    dtype: string
  - name: date_from
    dtype: string
  - name: date_to
    dtype: string
  - name: year
    dtype: int32
  - name: month_range
    dtype: string
  - name: source_file
    dtype: string
  splits:
  - name: train
    num_bytes: 16725850
    num_examples: 38603
  download_size: 3159873
  dataset_size: 16725850
configs:
- config_name: default
  data_files:
  - split: train
    path: data/train-*
---