case law research

The Leading Cases Filter; Enhancing full-text database searching with secondary materials

Full-text case law searching is inefficient due to the vagaries of, and subjective qualities of language, and the objective nature of standard search algorithms. Mining secondary materials for cases identified by scholars as leading ones, and then using them as a core filter in which to begin an online research session is one way to make full-text searching more efficient. The resulting algorithm, the "Leading Cases Filter" (also embarrassingly know as the "Leiter Filter"), is open source and freely available to all developers.  

Schedule info

Time slot: 
20 June 10:30 - 11:30
Room: 
WCC 2004
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