SCOTUS→SCOTUS Crosswalk

Resolving 323,404 U.S. Reports citations to verified SCDB records. Unlike lower court data, SCOTUS authorities inherit deep legal metadata including voting blocs and network centrality.

RESOLUTION COVERAGE BY ERA

[ 99.3% ACCURACY ]

1791 1950 (SCDB Start) 2024

[ METHODOLOGY ]

Supreme Court citations (U.S. Reports) comprise 85% of our benchmark corpus. Mapping these to the Supreme Court Database (SCDB) allows us to move beyond plain text, injecting voting blocs, legal issues, and disposition types into the evaluation context.

Resolution Protocol

NORMALIZATION

Canonicalize variants like "410 U. S. 113" -> 410 U.S. 113.

PIN CITES

Intelligently map page references (e.g., "at 127") back to parent case ID.

[ SCHEMATIC LINKAGE ]

U.S. CITE 410 U.S. 113

SCDB_ID 1972-040

VOTES 7-2 (MAJORITY)

[ ARTIFACT ]

scotus_map.parquet

Size: 5.8 MB. Optimized columnar format for high-speed resolution in Stage 4A.