CAP Corpus & Metadata

Integrating the Caselaw Access Project to provide lower federal court context. LegalChain resolves Supreme Court citations to canonical records from the circuit and district court corpus.

Populations

43,043

Resolved Cases

Scale

1.37 GB

JSONL Snapshots

Resolution

98.2%

Match Rate (S2)

The CAP Repository

A Typical SCOTUS opinion cites circuit and district court rulings to establish procedural history. LegalChain maintains a subset of the CAP corpus specifically mapped to these upstream dependencies.

[ DATA TRANSFORMATION ]

STEP 1. NORMALIZE

Strip punctuation -> Canonical string

STEP 2. RESOLVE

Map to CAP_CASES_META in DuckDB

STEP 3. INGEST

Load casebody into S4 Research Pack

Case Bundle Manifest

Bundle Name	Count	Size
cap_appellate_text.jsonl	36,552	1.1 GB
cap_trial_text.jsonl	6,491	262 MB
Corpus Total	43,043	1.37 GB

Schema Excerpt: cap_case

{
  "id": 1403610,
  "name": "U.S. v. Jackson",
  "citations": ["202 F. 305"],
  "casebody": {
    "opinions": [{ "type": "majority" }]
  },
  "pagerank": 0.0000123
}