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Opinions of the Minnesota Supreme Court and the Minnesota Court of Appeals, 1851–present. A public-records project.
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- 69,895 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A25-1142 | Minn. Ct. App. | 2026-11-09 | Affirmed | State of Minnesota v. Jaylen Lavontai Jones |
| A25-2186 | Minn. Ct. App. | 2026-11-09 | Affirmed | State of Minnesota v. Abdirisaq Adosh Elmi |
| A25-2191 | Minn. Ct. App. | 2026-11-09 | Affirmed | State of Minnesota v. Wayne Dushon Blanks |
| A26-0006 | Minn. Ct. App. | 2026-11-09 | Affirmed | In re: the Marriage of Susanne Marie Auleciems v. Karl Evald Auleciems |
| A26-0040 | Minn. Ct. App. | 2026-11-09 | Affirmed | Cori O’Reilley v. Patrick O’Reilley |
What you can do here
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- See how a case has been treated. For any opinion, see which later cases cite it — and whether they followed, distinguished, or overruled it.
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- Study the bench. Per-judge dossiers with voting record, dissent rate, and frequent co-panelists.
Opinions
Search and filter all 69,895 opinions in the corpus — by keyword, concept, outcome, and court.
Judges
24 currently-seated justices + judges, with per-judge dossiers covering opinion history, court split, dissent rate, and co-panelists.
Tags
Browse the 19 editorial subject-matter tags applied to Minnesota opinions so far — controlled-vocabulary topics across doctrine, subject, procedural, and posture.
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.
Each opinion shows whether it has been reviewed by an editor (cyan dot) or only machine-processed (amber dot). Filtered date defaults to the last 10 years — expand to the full archive via the toggle on the search page.