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Dataset Summary

This dataset represents a 2022 snapshot of the Supreme Court of Israel public verdicts and decisions supported by rich metadata. The 5.31GB dataset represents 751,194 documents. Overall, the dataset contains 2.68 Gb of text. It can be loaded with the dataset package:

import datasets
data = datasets.load_dataset('LevMuchnik/SupremeCourtOfIsrael')

Supported Tasks and Leaderboards

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Languages

The vast majority of the documents in the database are in Hebrew. A small number of documents are in English.

Dataset Structure

The dataset is a json lines file with each line corresponding to a single document and containing document identification, text and metadata.

Data Instances

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Data Fields

The file contains the following fields:

case_id - running number for cases
download_time - when the document was downloaded (datetime)
number_of_case_documents - number of documents in the current case
file_name - full name of the document file, including relative path
Id - document id
CaseId - case id
VerdictDt - Date of the document (datetime)
CreatedDate - Date of when the document was inserted into the Supreme Court database
CaseNum - case number
CaseDesc - Unique case identifier. This id is used to reference cases within the Israeli legal system
Pages - number of pages in the original document
Path - relative path to the document
CaseName - formal name of the case
FileName - document file name, without path
DocName -document file name, without path
Year - document creation year
TypeCode - enumeration of document types (see Type field below)
Type - Document type
- פסק-דין 84339
- החלטה 663099
- צו ביניים 22
- פסקי דין באנגלית 310
- צו על תנאי 200
- צו 2606
- פד"י 302
- תקצירים 316
Technical - boolean indicator of whether the document is technical or not.
CodeVolume - ?
document_hash - 258-bit hashtag of the document name. Used internally to uniquely identify the document
text - text of the document. Multiple newlines and other document formating elements (paragraphs,lists, etc.) are preserved.
html_title - document title extracted from the HTML
VerdictsDt - date of the verdict
meta_case_nm - formal case name,
meta_sec_appeal - integer or None
meta_side_ty - case type, list of strings
meta_verdict_file_nm - name of the verdict file
meta_judge - list of names of the cases judges
meta_mador_nm - name of the court instance (e.g. בג"ץ)
meta_side_nm - list of the case parties, list of strings
meta_verdict_dt - date of the verdict
meta_case_dt - date of the case
meta_verdict_nbr -
meta_ProgId - name of the software used to create the document (None, Word, etc)
meta_is_technical - whether the document is technical, {'false', 'true'}
meta_judge_nm_last - last names of the judges (list of strings)
meta_case_nbr - formal number of the case (same as CaseDesc)
meta_verdict_ty - type of the decision (same as Type)
meta_lawyer_nm - list of lawyer names, list of strings or None
meta_judge_nm_first - list of judges' first names, list of strings
meta_verdict_pages - number of document cases
meta_inyan_nm - court בג"ץ
meta_court_nm - court (e.g. בית המשפט העליון )

Data Splits

The entire dataset is qualified as 'train'.

Dataset Creation

2023-04-22

Curation Rationale

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Source Data

https://supreme.court.gov.il/

Initial Data Collection and Normalization

The data was colleted by crawling the Israeli Supreme Court website.

Who are the source language producers?

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Annotations

Annotation process

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Who are the annotators?

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Personal and Sensitive Information

The data contained in this dataset is public.

Considerations for Using the Data

Social Impact of Dataset

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Discussion of Biases

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Other Known Limitations

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Additional Information

Dataset Curators

Prof. Lev Muchnik, Hebrew University of Jerusalem Dr. Inbal Yahav Shenberger, Tel Aviv University

Licensing Information

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Citation Information

Lev Muchnik, Inbal Yahav, Ariel Nevo, Avichay Chriqui, Tim Shektov, 2023, The Israeli Supreme Court Dataset

Contributions

The authours would like to thank the Israeli Innovation Authority (grants #78560 and #78561) for their support in creating of this dataset.