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Free, searchable Minnesota case law — no account, no paywall.

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

  • Free & open Every opinion, free to read and search. No account, no paywall, no charge per search.
  • Private by design We never store your searches — there is no research history to subpoena, sell, or leak.
  • The court's own words Holdings and quotes come straight from the opinion, verbatim. We never paraphrase or generate legal text.
  • 69605 opinions indexed
  • 120 judges (24 currently seated)
  • 1851–2026 date range
  • 19 legal topics to browse

What you can do here

  • Search by keyword or by concept. Full-text search across every opinion, plus semantic search that finds cases by idea, not just matching words.
  • Jump straight to a citation. Paste a reporter or docket citation and go directly to the opinion.
  • See how a case has been treated. For any opinion, see which later cases cite it — and whether they followed, distinguished, or overruled it.
  • Read the holding in the court's own words. The operative holding, quoted verbatim and linked to the paragraph it came from.
  • Study the bench. Per-judge dossiers with voting record, dissent rate, and frequent co-panelists.

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.

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