Corpus Judge

corpus-judge provides a curated Supreme Court justice roster plus utilities for normalizing opinion-writer names and selecting a likely justice for a case date. It is intended for Philippine legal-corpus ingestion, where the original writer text should remain available as source evidence. Selection is conservative: when the source text and active roster do not support one justice, the result is unresolved rather than a guessed attribution.

Quick Example

from corpus_judge import CandidateJustice, load_justice_records
from sqlite_utils import Database

db = Database(":memory:")
db["justices"].insert_all(load_justice_records())

candidate = CandidateJustice(
    db=db,
    text="Justice Antonio T. Kho, Jr.",
    date_str="2023-04-03",
)
assert candidate.detail is not None
assert candidate.detail.raw_ponente == "Kho"

Documentation

See the documentation for the roster schema, name-normalization rules, selection behavior, and development commands. The release notes compare the current major release with the previously published package.

Testing

uv sync --all-extras --dev
just check