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Add detection of "Ridgely's Notes" and other irregular reporters #27

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elliottash opened this issue Aug 24, 2016 · 6 comments · May be fixed by #189
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Add detection of "Ridgely's Notes" and other irregular reporters #27

elliottash opened this issue Aug 24, 2016 · 6 comments · May be fixed by #189
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"Ridgely's Notes," "Wilson's Red Book," etc. is how the Delaware Supreme Court cites its old precedents. They don't have numbers before and after so they are not parsed by the current citation detection method. This could be added.

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Here's a partial list of these kinds of citations with some frequency analysis:

[
('Ridgely', 290),
('Wilson', 189),
('Clayton', 115),
('Bayard', 111),
('Rodney', 105),
('Wells', 20),
('Stout', 15),
('Miller', 14),
('Read', 13),
('Hilles', 5),
]

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mlissner commented Mar 2, 2021

I wish I had made a note about how I did the above analysis. Shoot, but it was four years ago. I was a child.

Anyway, this looks like another instance where we just need regexes if we don't already have them.

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anseljh commented Jul 5, 2024

"Bailey" is another one from South Carolina.

In the fairly modern case Aakjer v. Spagnoli, 352 S.E.2d 503 (S.C. Ct. App. 1987) (link), there is this citation: Smith v. Henry, 18 S.C.L. (2 Bail.) 118 (1831). That's a tricky one where they've mixed a standard format with the historical reporter.

Here's what CAP says about the volume: https://api.case.law/v1/volumes/32044078699980/

{
    "url": "https://api.case.law/v1/volumes/32044078699980/",
    "barcode": "32044078699980",
    "volume_number": "18",
    "title": null,
    "publisher": "A. E. Miller",
    "publication_year": 1834,
    "start_year": 1830,
    "end_year": 1832,
    "nominative_volume_number": "2",
    "nominative_name": "Bailey",
    "series_volume_number": "2",
    "reporter": "Reports of cases argued and determined in the court of appeals of south carolina on appeal from the courts of law",
...
}

Found via exploration of the Citing Slavery dataset: http://www.citingslavery.org/court_cases/198. See https://github.com/freelawproject/crm/issues/519.

Some more instances:

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mlissner commented Jul 5, 2024

Some related discussion about historical citations here: #103

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anseljh commented Jul 5, 2024

For this Bailey one, I think it's already in reporters-db and we just need to add an alternate citation format for the weird formulation in the Aakjer case.

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mlissner commented Jul 5, 2024

Ah ha. Fun. We can do that. I'll put this on Bill's backlog to do or delegate.

@flooie flooie moved this to General Backlog in Case Law Sprint Nov 19, 2024
@flooie flooie moved this from General Backlog to Backlog Dec 16 - Dec 27th in Case Law Sprint Dec 16, 2024
@quevon24 quevon24 moved this from Backlog Dec 16 - Dec 27th to In progress in Case Law Sprint Dec 26, 2024
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