Data · Coverage · Iowa

What we hold for Iowa.

The complete inventory of Hudson Corpus for Iowa law: 247,103 primary authorities spanning 1839 to this month, counted from the live corpus and connected by citation and cross reference. This page states exactly what is on the shelf, source by source.

Counted August 31, 2026

247,103

primary authorities

187

years of decisions, 1839 to 2026

6

sources of law, statutes to case law

41,231

mapped connections between them

Where the library reaches

Deep on Iowa, current on the federal courts above it, and honest about the rest.

  • Iowa

    The full stack. Statutes, regulations, session laws, court rules, and state and federal case law.

  • Eighth Circuit

    Federal appellate decisions that bind Iowa's district courts.

  • Elsewhere

    Not in the corpus yet. Coverage is continuously expanding.

The shelf, source by source

Every count on this page is computed from the corpus itself, not estimated. Where a source is still growing, the row says so.

  • Iowa Code

    Statutes

    The codified statutes of the State of Iowa, structured to the section, with the 2025 and 2026 editions held side by side for year over year comparison.

    28,157 sections · 1,870 chapters · 2 editions

    28,157

    Sections · current through the 2026 edition

  • Iowa Administrative Code

    Regulations

    Every agency rule in force, structured to the rule and tied back to the statutes each rule implements.

    17,690 rules · 1,820 chapters · 87 agencies

    17,690

    Rules · all 87 agencies

  • Iowa Acts

    Session laws

    Session laws as enacted by the 88th through 91st General Assemblies, 2019 to 2026, each act mapped to the Code sections it creates or amends.

    16,514 sections · 1,358 enacted chapters · 8 sessions

    16,514

    Sections · sessions 2019 to 2026

  • Iowa Court Rules

    Rules of court

    The rules governing practice in Iowa's courts, structured to the rule.

    1,193 rules · 70 chapters

    1,193

    Rules

  • Iowa case law

    Decisions since 1839

    The decisions of Iowa's appellate courts, from the territorial Supreme Court's first reported opinions forward, with the citation graph and treatment analysis across all of them.

    76,796 decisions

    • Supreme Court of Iowa, 1839 to present54,093
    • Court of Appeals of Iowa22,703

    76,796

    Decisions · 1839 to August 2026

  • Federal courts

    Decisions since 1849

    The federal decisions that bind Iowa practice: the Eighth Circuit in full, Iowa's district and bankruptcy courts, and the circuit courts that preceded them.

    106,753 decisions

    • Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit99,361
    • District Courts, N.D. and S.D. Iowa4,662
    • Bankruptcy courts and the Eighth Circuit BAP2,091
    • Historical circuit courts, 1849 forward639

    106,753

    Decisions · 1849 to June 2026

    Expanding

Connected, not just collected.

A coverage list tells you what is on the shelf. The corpus also holds how it fits together: which rules implement which statutes, which acts rewrote which sections, and which opinions cite, follow, or undercut which.

22,508

references between Code sections and the administrative rules that implement them

18,723

edges from session laws to the Code sections they create or amend

Every opinion

in the citation graph, with treatment analysis of how later courts received it

How this page counts

Counted, not estimated

Every figure is computed from the corpus itself, as of the date at the top of the page. No survey numbers, no vendor claims.

The official record

Statutes, rules, and session laws come from legis.iowa.gov. Decisions come from the public record of the courts. Nothing is paraphrased.

Kept current

New opinions land continuously and new editions are added on publication. When the counts move, this page restates them with a new as-of date.

Where should the map grow next?

If your practice needs a source we do not hold yet, another state, a federal court, an agency's rules, ask for it. Requests steer the ingestion queue.

Answered by the team that does the ingesting. A timeline, not a sales call.