Add detection of "Ridgely's Notes" and other irregular reporters

[elliottash]

"Ridgely's Notes," "Wilson's Red Book," etc. is how the Delaware Supreme Court cites its old precedents. They don't have numbers before and after so they are not parsed by the current citation detection method. This could be added.

[mlissner]

Here's a partial list of these kinds of citations with some frequency analysis:

[
('Ridgely', 290),
('Wilson', 189),
('Clayton', 115),
('Bayard', 111),
('Rodney', 105),
('Wells', 20),
('Stout', 15),
('Miller', 14),
('Read', 13),
('Hilles', 5),
]

[mlissner]

I wish I had made a note about how I did the above analysis. Shoot, but it was four years ago. I was a child.

Anyway, this looks like another instance where we just need regexes if we don't already have them.

[anseljh]

"Bailey" is another one from South Carolina.

In the fairly modern case Aakjer v. Spagnoli, 352 S.E.2d 503 (S.C. Ct. App. 1987) (link), there is this citation: Smith v. Henry, 18 S.C.L. (2 Bail.) 118 (1831). That's a tricky one where they've mixed a standard format with the historical reporter.

Here's what CAP says about the volume: https://api.case.law/v1/volumes/32044078699980/

{
    "url": "https://api.case.law/v1/volumes/32044078699980/",
    "barcode": "32044078699980",
    "volume_number": "18",
    "title": null,
    "publisher": "A. E. Miller",
    "publication_year": 1834,
    "start_year": 1830,
    "end_year": 1832,
    "nominative_volume_number": "2",
    "nominative_name": "Bailey",
    "series_volume_number": "2",
    "reporter": "Reports of cases argued and determined in the court of appeals of south carolina on appeal from the courts of law",
...
}

Found via exploration of the Citing Slavery dataset: http://www.citingslavery.org/court_cases/198. See https://github.com/freelawproject/crm/issues/519.

Some more instances:

• O'Brien v. Bound, 29 S.C.L. 495 (S.C. Ct. App. 1844): citation is "1 Bailey, 330".
• Executors of Bordeaux v. Cave, 18 S.C.L. 6 (S.C. Ct. App. 1830): citation is "See Jamison, Admr. v. Lindsay. 1 Bailey, 79."
• Martin v. Archer, 21 S.C.L. 211 (S.C. Ct. App. 1837): citation is "Hunter vs. Glenn, 1 Bailey, 542."

[mlissner]

Some related discussion about historical citations here: https://github.com/freelawproject/eyecite/issues/103

[anseljh]

For this Bailey one, I think it's already in reporters-db and we just need to add an alternate citation format for the weird formulation in the Aakjer case.

[mlissner]

Ah ha. Fun. We can do that. I'll put this on Bill's backlog to do or delegate.