Michael Lissner June 27, 2013 We’re proud to announce a big new feature today that we’ve been planning for a long time. Starting today, you can make citation queries against the CourtListener corpus. If you look in the bottom of the left hand column, you’ll see a new slider: Sliding the handles around, you can easily filter out any documents that...
Michael Lissner January 30, 2016 One of the great new features that the new version of CourtListener provides is what we’re calling Citation Searching. Citation Searching lets you look at all the opinions that cite an opinion you’re interested in and then slice and dice them so that you only see the ones that are important to you. For example, say...
Michael Lissner February 17, 2016 We want to share some quick statistics today. We we just completed running our citation parser across the entire CourtListener collection. If you follow our work, you’ll know that the purpose of the citation parser is to go through every opinion in CourtListener and identify every citation from one opinion to another (such as...
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Michael Lissner February 20, 2020 Back in 2016 we mentioned in a blog post that you can set up alerts to learn about new references to opinions in CourtListener. We called it: “Citation Alerts”, but they were a bit difficult to set up. Today we’re announcing that we’ve revamped Citation Alerts so they’re more obvious, easier to create...
Matt Dahl March 5, 2020 Citation data is a keystone of legal research–both for understanding a particular judicial decision and for discovering similar ones. However, binary information about whether one opinion cites another can only tell us so much. Therefore, today I’m excited to announce that CourtListener is now calculating and making available a...