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Extract citations from judgments and summaries

Reading judgment records adds citations to the legal graph, extending the material available for article-to-ruling research.

The reader’s problem

The University's catalogue already connected some articles to rulings.

What changed

The October judgment-reading work extended that map by identifying citations inside ruling text and summaries. These records expanded the graph behind article-to-ruling research. Direct navigation from a ruling back to its cited provisions was a separate interface step added on 27 October.

Using the feature

Use these links to assemble a reading list around a provision. Open the ruling and check the relevant passage in its original scan. A link can reveal useful context, but the role of a citation may vary: a court can apply a rule, discuss it or recount an argument about it.

Reading the evidence

Citation extraction is fallible, especially when a record is short or a scan is difficult. Later validation rejected unsupported quotations and improved target matching. A missing link does not establish that no ruling discusses an article, and a present link does not by itself establish a binding interpretation.

Sources

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