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In this tutorial we’re going to learn how to retrieve a case by citation using the Caselaw Access Project’s case browser.

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This post is about a research paper (preprint) on sentence retrieval for statutory interpretation that we presented at the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law (ICAIL 2019) held in June at Montreal, Canada. The paper describes some of our recent work on computational methods for statutory interpretation carried out at the University of Pittsburgh. The idea is to focus on vague statutory concepts and enable a program to retrieve sentences that explain the meaning of such concepts. The Library Innovation Lab’s Caselaw Access Project (CAP) provides an ideal corpus of case law that is needed for such work.

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The Caselaw Access Project API offers a way to view the corpus of U.S. case law. This tutorial will review how to run a CAP API call to return all cases decided 100 years ago today in your command line.

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Today we’re announcing a new data release for the Caselaw Access Project. This update includes:

• In-text figures and illustrations in cases. An example, from Sussman v. Cooper (1976), is below.
• Inline page numbers. You can provide a pin cite to a specific page in a case by adding #p123 to the URL, or just by clicking the page number.
• Italic formatting in case text, as detected by OCR.

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Last month we hosted the Caselaw Access Project Research Summit. An international group of researchers joined us to share what they are creating with Caselaw Access Project data. We are excited to share recordings of those presentations with you!

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Today we’re announcing the CAP case browser! Browse published U.S. case law from 1658 to 2018—all 40 million pages of it.

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In the Spring of 2019, at the University of Iowa, I taught an experimental course called Introduction to Quantitative & Computational Legal Reasoning. The idea of the class was beginning “data science” in the legal context. The course is taught in Python, and focuses on introductory coding and statistics, with focused applications in the law (such as statistical evidence of discrimination).

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Since launching the CAP API and Bulk Data Service in Fall 2018, we’ve been developing a research community around the Caselaw Access Project dataset.

Last week we hosted the first Caselaw Access Project Research Summit to bring together researchers from this community who had already made progress exploring data made available by the Caselaw Access Project.

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Today we’re excited to share Historical Trends, a new way to explore U.S. case law made available by the Caselaw Access Project at Harvard Law School.

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