Harvard Caselaw Access Project

Taking  a deeper dive into the details of this, and notably who is looking at related predictive analytics that might be applied.

Project: Caselaw Access Project

Where can I find Caselaw Access Project?

What does Caselaw Access Project do?

The Caselaw Access Project is making all U.S. case law freely accessible online.

Why does Caselaw Access Project exist?
Our common law - the written decisions issued by our state and federal courts - is not freely accessible online. This lack of access harms justice and equality and stifles innovation in legal services.

The Harvard Law School Library has one of the world's largest, most comprehensive collections of court decisions in print form. Our collection totals over 42,000 volumes and roughly 40 million pages. Caselaw Access Project aims to transform the official print versions of these court decisions into digital files made freely accessible online. ...

They are working with Ravel:    https://www.ravellaw.com/  Note examples of the use of legal analytics. 

Detailed Description of work:  http://etseq.law.harvard.edu/2015/10/free-the-law-overview/

Caselaw Access Project

More on the Caselaw access project.  Public access to US law,  as a potential data source for law related AI projects.

https://case.law/about/

The Caselaw Access Project (“CAP”) expands public access to U.S. law. 
Our goal is to make all published U.S. court decisions freely available to the public online, in a consistent format, digitized from the collection of the Harvard Law Library.

Contents:

Our data
Scope limits
By the numbers
Digitization
Data quality
Data citation
Usage & access
Press
Partners
Contributors

What data do we have?
CAP includes all official, book-published United States case law — every volume designated as an official report of decisions by a court within the United States.

Our scope includes all state courts, federal courts, and territorial courts for American Samoa, Dakota Territory, Guam, Native American Courts, Navajo Nation, and the Northern Mariana Islands. Our earliest case is from 1658, and our most recent cases are from 2018.

Each volume has been converted into structured, case-level data broken out by majority and dissenting opinion, with human-checked metadata for party names, docket number, citation, and date.

We also plan to share (but have not yet published) page images and page-level OCR data for all volumes.  ... "

Harvard Boosts Legal AI

Been following the potential for AI in Law,  applications like smart contracts, or intelligent legal research.  Or predicting legal outcomes based on context.  And it all starts with the data available.    Consider the implications for lower level legal jobs.  Here is a start just announced, in Technology Review:

" ... Harvard just put more than 6 million court cases online to give legal AI a boost.   After five years of work, nearly 6.5 million US court cases are now available to access for free online.

The news: The Library Innovation Lab at the Harvard Law School Library has completed its Caselaw Access Project, an endeavour to digitize every reported… read more.