DFdfc·May 30, 2014
The project I am most excited about is the citation extractor: https://github.com/unitedstates/citation
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unitedstates / citation
citation
Legal citation extractor, via command line, JavaScript, or HTTP. See a live example at:
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| Oct 2013 | 2013-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Nov 2013 | 2013-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 2013 | 2013-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 2014 | 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Feb 2014 | 2014-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 2014 | 2014-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 2014 | 2014-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| May 2014 | 2014-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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2 sourcesThis is incredible and ignore the haters.
My advice: fine-tune this for different verticals. I'd really love to use a tool like this for taking notes for law school classes. Wire up the search engine with cool parsers (e.g. a legal citation parser[1]) or something that pulls the decision[2] of a case from Wikipedia just by writing the case name.
[1] https://github.com/unitedstates/citation
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United_v._Federal_Elec...
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