Difference between revisions of "Stylistic Structure in Historic Legal Text"
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We have collected a corpus of slave-related and property-related US supreme court legal opinions from Lexis Nexis. | 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. | 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. | + | It also includes 14,580 property-related cases from the same period. Most of the cases consist of the following data |
| + | fields:''Parties, Court, Date, Judge Opinion, Previous Court and Judges, Disposition, Case Overview, Procedural Posture, | ||
| + | Outcome, Core Terms Generated by Lexis, Headnote, Counsel, and Judge(s)''. | ||
Revision as of 16:10, 12 September 2011
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. Most of the cases consist of the following data fields:Parties, Court, Date, Judge Opinion, Previous Court and Judges, Disposition, Case Overview, Procedural Posture, Outcome, Core Terms Generated by Lexis, Headnote, Counsel, and Judge(s).
