Wikidata:Property proposal/Caselaw Access Project case ID

Caselaw Access Project case ID edit

Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Creative work

Done: Caselaw Access Project case ID (P6090) (Talk and documentation)

Description	identifier for single case in Caselaw Access Project (CAP, or case.law)
Represents	Caselaw Access Project (Q58305678)
Data type	External identifier
Domain	legal case (Q2334719)
Example 1	Burnet v. Logan (Q4999666) → 6936836
Example 2	Klayman v. Obama (Q17156924) → 3827855
Example 3	Plessy v. Ferguson (Q656660) → 468276
Source	https://case.law/api/#endpoint-case
Planned use	bulk download from case.law
Number of IDs in source	6.5 million case IDs in the United States, and about 250,000 in Arkansas and Illinois which have a more open license
Expected completeness	eventually complete (Q21873974)
Formatter URL	https://api.case.law/v1/cases/$1/

Motivation edit

Caselaw Access Project (Q58305678) is a programmatic way to access all published case law in the United States. "The Caselaw Access Project (“CAP”) expands public access to U.S. law. Our goal is to make all published U.S. court decisions freely available to the public online, in a consistent format, digitized from the collection of the Harvard Law Library." They have gone to the trouble of appropriately licensing data and pushing for open licenses whenever possible, offering programmatic access, and backing it with Harvard University resources. Along with cases themselves, there are also endpoints for citations, reporters, jurisdictions, courts, and volumes. See https://api.case.law/v1/ for more information.

Based on https://case.law/about/#usage we may be able to get access to the entire country's IDs, or maybe just Arkansas and Illinois. Either way this property is useful, since those two states alone offer a quarter-million cases. And the case.law folks expect that restrictions will end at latest in March of 2024, so we should continue to get more and more IDs. Runner1928 (talk) 19:47, 30 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion edit

Support David (talk) 07:20, 31 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support Cwf97 (talk) 16:41, 5 November 2018 (EST)
Comment please create an item for "Caselaw Access Project" before proceeding with this proposal. -- JakobVoss (talk) 07:03, 6 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@JakobVoss: Done. Caselaw Access Project (Q58305678) Runner1928 (talk) 15:44, 6 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@ديفيد عادل وهبة خليل 2, Runner1928, JakobVoss, Cwf97: Done: Caselaw Access Project case ID (P6090). − Pintoch (talk) 18:01, 6 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]