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Opinions of the Minnesota Supreme Court and the Minnesota Court of Appeals, 1851–present. A public-records project.

Minnesota appellate opinions per year, 1851 to 2025 Area chart of the Minnesota corpus by filing year. Coverage runs from 1851 to 2025, peaking in 1985 with 1,535 opinions. 1851 1890 1920 1960 1990 2025

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

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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…
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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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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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