Numbered styles of cause producing errors

646e62 / legal-citation-parser

Unpacks legal case metadata from CanLII case citations.

https://pypi.org/project/legal-citation-parser/

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Numbered styles of cause producing errors #23

Closed 646e62 closed 6 months ago

646e62 commented 6 months ago

Eg:

"Reference re: Workers\u0027 Compensation Act, 1983 (Nfld.), ss. 32, 34, 1987 CanLII 118 (NL CA)"
"Montréal (City) v 2952-1366 Québec Inc"
"UFCW, Local 1518, v KMart Canada Ltd"
"Quebec (Attorney General) v 9147-0732 Québec inc"

Four-digit numbers like this in a case title are relatively rare, but consistently cause problems. Fixing the issue will require fundamentally revisiting the way the function parses citation strings.

646e62 commented 6 months ago

Try searching right to left when splitting by year.