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Recognizing Public Law Citations #116

Closed bbernicker closed 2 years ago

bbernicker commented 2 years ago

Until a federal statute has been codified, the correct citation to it uses both its public/private law number and its location in the statutes at large. R16.1.5. Until a federal statute has been published in the statutes at large (at the end of the Congressional session), the correct citation is to the public/private law number alone.

When given a citation in this form, Eyecite recognizes the statutes at large citation but not the public/private law citation. For example:

text = "Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Pub. L. No. 111-148, § 1101, 124 Stat. 119, 141-43 (2010)"
print(get_citations(text))
>> [UnknownCitation('§', metadata=CitationBase.Metadata(parenthetical=None)), FullLawCitation('124 Stat. 119', groups={'volume': '124', 'reporter': 'Stat.', 'page': '119'}, metadata=FullLawCitation.Metadata(parenthetical=None, pin_cite=None, year=None, publisher=None, day=None, month=None))]

We should be able to detect the public/private law citation, and I am working on adding support for it now.

flooie commented 2 years ago

this is great. And fascinating thank you.