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# US-LegalKit

This dataset consists of all state supreme court verdicts from 1845 - 2024. This does not include New York where the appellate court is the highest division. This is in progress as a separate batch.

A version will be uploaded ASAP with the actual docuemnt content as well.

### TODO

[x] State Supreme Court verdicts
[x] US Federal Code
[] State Code
[] US Federal Supreme Court verdicts
[] New York Appellate court verdicts
[] Add complete documents to US Federal Code
[] Add complete documents to State Supreme Court verdicts
[] Conversational Dataset
[] Judge Dataset


# Current Distribution

state
oklahoma          33709
pennsylvania      24980
georgia           20706
alabama           19081
montana           19044
arkansas          16811
nebraska          16060
iowa              16044
florida           16033
west-virginia     15416
louisiana         15263
delaware          14792
mississippi       14642
minnesota         14511
north-dakota      13364
north-carolina    12541
kansas            12173
washington        12079
wisconsin         11996
wyoming           11878
illinois          11087
massachusetts     10996
colorado          10945
south-carolina    10620
indiana           10583
maine              9758
hawaii             9624
oregon             9113
rhode-island       9051
missouri           8625
new-jersey         8565
vermont            8445
connecticut        8096
michigan           8059
kentucky           8044
virginia           7930
south-dakota       7894
utah               7769
nevada             7147
arizona            7032
texas              6880
new-hampshire      6502
alaska             6498
new-mexico         5970
tennessee          4497
california         2223


![distribution](distribution.png)

As we can see here some states tend to take cases to the supreme court much more frequently than others.
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![time-series](time-series.png)

## References 

+ [Justia US Law](https://law.justia.com)
+ [Congress.gov](https://www.congress.gov)

### Citation 

```bibtex
@misc{US-LegalKit,
  author = {Tim Dolan},
  title = {US-LegalKit: Supreme Court Decisions},
  year = {2024},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/macadeliccc/US-LegalKit}},
}
```