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Law and legal practice modernized in the nineteenth-century United States. We are studying and visualizing the history of the modernization of American law.

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Paper for OWCAL #83

Open lmullen opened 1 year ago

kfunk074 commented 1 year ago

[ ] Analyze dates and relative age of cited authorities (see first proposal here)
[ ] Consider if there are meaningful measures of judicial influence from "author" or "judge" tables in CAP--pull judge from list of most cited cases? or try to track counts to particular judges like Lemuel Shaw, James Kent, Joseph Story?
[ ] Take Wheeler, Practical Law of Slavery (F0105347590): Where else do the cited cases show up? Are they all "property" cases or what other "genre" do they emerge in?

kfunk074 commented 1 year ago

Not sure if they'll have useful material in time for the paper, but we could see if RAs have analytical ideas if they get a database by mid-month. See #86.

kfunk074 commented 1 year ago

Working draft can be found here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zb-0SGr69mHc6PIlVEwnwWCkXBzvG7vrd6Qxn-M6ILk/edit?usp=sharing

I will flesh it out after other writing deadlines on 2/17.

lmullen commented 1 year ago

Another obvious thing to do:

[ ] Create a co-citation network of cases as seen from the treatises.

lmullen commented 1 year ago

[ ] Create bibliographic coupling network of treatises as linked by the cases they cite

kfunk074 commented 1 year ago

Suggested plan to proceed:

Update whitelist (#81) Update single-volume library and regexes (#69) Import English Reports database (#42) Import Code Reporter database (#80) Re-run detection and linking process over MOML, with linking to new databases Run detection and linking process over CAP (#74) Update paper visualizations with the new citational databases Attempt coupling/co-citation ideas above and/or canon-cloud idea from #66

lmullen commented 1 year ago

Suggested plan to proceed:

[x] Update whitelist (https://github.com/lmullen/legal-modernism/issues/81)
[x] Rerun linking over MOML
[x] Work on analysis of textbooks
[x] Updates to paper visualizations/tables as needed
[ ] Update single-volume library and regexes (https://github.com/lmullen/legal-modernism/issues/69)
[ ] Import English Reports database (https://github.com/lmullen/legal-modernism/issues/42)
[ ] Import Code Reporter database (https://github.com/lmullen/legal-modernism/issues/80)
[ ] Re-run detection and linking process over MOML, with linking to new databases
[ ] Update paper visualizations with the new citational databases
[ ] Attempt coupling/co-citation ideas above and/or canon-cloud idea from https://github.com/lmullen/legal-modernism/issues/66
[ ] Run detection and linking process over CAP (https://github.com/lmullen/legal-modernism/issues/74)

kfunk074 commented 1 year ago

Just putting the updates hitlist here for simplicity:

[x] Add smoothed curve of age of cases cited in cases
[x] Add histogram of age of cases cited in treatises
[x] Standardize y-axis on top ten case cite counts (axis of 0 to 20)
[x] Update second paragraph count of unique cases cited (currently 326,000)