legal-citation-parser 0.1.5

Extract metadata from legal citations

legal_citation_parser

Extracts metadata from legal citations.

Although legal citations are typically short strings, they contain a great deal of information compressed into a relatively small package. This Python module is designed to extract and standardize that data from from legal citation strings. This module can currently handles the following citation types:

• Neutral citations (Canadian);
• Supreme Court Reader (SCR) citations;
• CanLII citations.

Metadata

The module currently extracts the following from (most) raw CanLII citation strings:

• UID. The decision's unique ID. Corresponds to the CanLII API's caseId variable.
• Atomic citation. The citation's human readable unique ID.
• Style of cause. The human readable case name.
• Citation type. The type of citation parsed.
• Year. The decision's year.
• Decision number. The decision's number.
• Jurisdiction. The province, territory, or federal jurisdiction the case was heard in.
• Court name. The human readable court level.
• Court level. The relative level of the court.
• CanLII URL. The decision's URL on canlii.org

Installation

From the command line:

pip install legal_citation_parser

In Python 3.x:

>>> from legal_citation_parser import parse_citation

Contributing

Contributions to improve this module are welcome. You can contribute by:

• Reporting bugs
• Suggesting enhancements
• Sending pull requests with bug fixes or new features

License

This project is licensed under the GPL 3.0 License - see the LICENSE file for details.