Difference between revisions of "Stylistic Structure in Historic Legal Text"
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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. Most of the cases consist of the following data | 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, | + | 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)''. |
| − | Outcome, Core Terms Generated by Lexis, Headnote, Counsel, and Judge(s)''. | ||
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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).
