Stylistic Structure in Historic Legal Text

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This will be the project page for Elijah Mayfield and William Y. Wang.


The Dataset We have collected a corpus of slave-related and property-related US supreme court legal opinions from Lexis Nexis. The dataset includes 6,014 slave-related state supreme court cases from 24 states, during the period of 1730 - 1866. It also includes 14,580 property-related cases from the same period.