Caselaw Access Project
Document Type
Website
Abstract
The Caselaw Access Project (CAP) digitized the entirety of the Harvard Law School Library’s physical collection of American case law available through online and transformed over 40 million pages of U.S. court decision into a dataset of over 6.7 million cases that represent 360 years of U.S. legal history.
The scope of CAP includes all state courts, federal courts, and territorial courts for American Samoa, Dakota Territory, Guam, Native American Courts, Navajo Nation, and the Northern Mariana Islands. The earliest case is from 1658, and more volumes are continuously added through 2020.
Each volume has been converted into structured, case-level data broken out by majority and dissenting opinion, with human-checked metadata for party names, docket number, citation, and date.
Publication Date
5-2024
Recommended Citation
Harvard Law School and Library Innovation Lab, "Caselaw Access Project" (2024). AALL Legal Website of the Month. 3.
https://ir.law.utk.edu/aall_websites/3