15 Pages Posted: 28 Sep 2022 Abstract There is a need for more publicly available corpora of legal language. To help fill this gap, we have developed the Corpus of U.S. State Statutes, or CorUSSS, a new corpus comprising the statutory code from all 50 U.S. states. In total the corpus contains 1,785,742 texts, each of which represents a statute in one of the 50 U.S. states’ codes. This corpus provides us with the ability to explore language use in statutes within or across all 50 states. After mo...