scotusutils 0.2.dev0

SCOTUS Analysis Tools

SCOTUS Data Tools

Welcome to SCOTUS Data Tools and Utils! This is a work in progress.

Intro & Objectives

The primary purpose of this package is to create a set of tools that is capabile of:

• Retrieving base SCOTUS data (e.g. case texts from https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/boundvolumes.aspx and case transcriptions from http://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/terms/)
• Retrieving auxiliary SCOTUS data (not sure what this includes yet?)
• Extracting & Segmenting texts from source documents
  • For Bound Volumes, this means extracting text from PDF and segmenting by case
  • Transcripts may involve getting the text from the PDFs and segmenting by speaker, perhaps
  • Other sources may have more involved extraction / processing requirements
• Providing basic tools for storing the "core" extracted data in an easily accessible -- from a Data Science perspective -- format
  • Further work may perhaps involve providing tools for easily accessing the data in a more "user friendly" manner
• Linking the data extracted from various sources
  • by Case
  • by SCOTUS Justices
  • other "indicies"