Use case: NY appeal courts

This use case involves

• Scraping ~100,000 appeals decisions from the four Appellate Divisions of the Supreme Court

• A process of scraping and processing with regular expressions is completely described in the Hyperion Gray CourtDocs project

• The processing task involves the extraction of around two dozen latent features, these are detailed below.

  • Legal file name
  • Case Number
  • Case Name
  • Case Type
  • Court
  • County
  • State
  • Judge
  • District Attorney
  • Legal Keywords
  • Initial Hearing Date/Date of Filing
  • Appeal Date (if present within Court of Appeals)
  • Gap Days (diff between initial and filing date)
  • Mode of Conviction
  • Crime(s)
  • Witnessing Judges
  • Defendant-Appealant
  • Defendant-Respondent Assistant District Attorney