  In this paper, we describe the Czech Court Decision Corpus (CzCDC). CzCDC is
a dataset of 237,723 decisions published by the Czech apex (or top-tier)
courts, namely the Supreme Court, the Supreme Administrative Court and the
Constitutional Court. All the decisions were published between 1st January 1993
and 30th September 2018.
  Court decisions are available on the webpages of the respective courts or via
commercial databases of legal information. This often leads researchers
interested in these decisions to reach either to respective court or to
commercial provider. This leads to delays and additional costs. These are
further exacerbated by a lack of inter-court standard in the terms of the data
format in which courts provide their decisions. Additionally, courts' databases
often lack proper documentation.
  Our goal is to make the dataset of court decisions freely available online in
consistent (plain) format to lower the cost associated with obtaining data for
future research. We believe that simplified access to court decisions through
the CzCDC could benefit other researchers.
  In this paper, we describe the processing of decisions before their inclusion
into CzCDC and basic statistics of the dataset. This dataset contains plain
texts of court decisions and these texts are not annotated for any grammatical
or syntactical features.
