Minnesota
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Opinions of the Minnesota Supreme Court and the Minnesota Court of Appeals, 1851–present. A public-records project.
Opinions per year, 1851–2025 · busiest year 1985 (1,535)
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- 69,779 opinions indexed
- 119 judges (24 currently seated)
- 1851–2026 date range
- 19 legal topics to browse
Most recent activity
All opinions →| Docket | Court | Filed | Disposition | Case |
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| A25-0424 | Minn. Ct. App. | 2026-09-14 | Affirmed | In Re the Marriage of: Christopher Warren Martin n/k/a Christal Warren Martin A v. Rebecc… |
| A25-1662 | Minn. Ct. App. | 2026-09-14 | Affirmed | Jamie John Wojcik v. Michael John Wilson, et al |
| A25-1666 | Minn. Ct. App. | 2026-09-14 | Affirmed | Cody J Walker v. Leah Ann Defoe |
| A25-1844 | Minn. Ct. App. | 2026-09-14 | Affirmed | State of Minnesota v. Deandre Ladarryl Lipscomb |
| A25-1984 | Minn. Ct. App. | 2026-09-14 | Affirmed | In Re the Custody of the Children of: Matthew Prescott Beale v. Sara Elizabeth Aase |
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About this corpus
DocketDrift Minnesota collates published opinions from the Minnesota appellate courts, normalizes them into a structured archive, and surfaces patterns for human review. Source material is in the public record; our role is collation, not interpretation.
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