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Description
A full-coverage corpus of European Court of Justice case law includes every judgment, order, opinion, and notice published since 1954. The dataset, created by davidwickerhf, provides metadata, multi-language full text, and a citation graph using CELEX identifiers. It serves as a single source of truth for empirical EU-law research.
Use Cases
Analyze trends in EU legal interpretation based on the full text of judgments since 1954.
Map the network of legal precedent using the inbound and outbound citation graph.
Study the application of EU law in national courts based on the included national-court decisions.
Conduct multilingual legal text analysis where full text is available in multiple languages.
Strengths
Full coverage of case law from the Court of Justice and General Court since 1954.
Includes national-court decisions that cite EU law.
Provides a citation graph as joinable CELEX identifiers.
Limitations
Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
Row count and file formats are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
Provenance
Source
European Court of Justice (CJEU) / CELLAR.
Collection Method
Likely compiled from official court publications.
Time Range
1954 to present.
Freshness
Last updated 2026-05-26 23:10:52; freshness should be verified.
Geography
European Union.
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