Brazilian Supreme Court Cases Analyzing Oral Arguments and Media Coverage

A collection of 31 judicial processes from Brazil's Supreme Federal Court (STF) analyzed for the influence of oral arguments on final rulings and their coverage in news media. The dataset, created by Rodrigo Lima, focuses on cases of high public relevance judged from October 2023 onward, including both virtual and in-person sessions. It includes PDF and DOCX files totaling 111.4 MB.

Use Cases

• Analyzing the impact of oral arguments on judicial decisions based on mentions in written votes and debates.
• Studying media coverage of legal proceedings based on news articles published between oral arguments and final voting.
• Researching democratic legitimacy and public communication strategies of high courts.
• Comparing the dynamics of synchronous (in-person) versus asynchronous (virtual) court sessions.

Strengths

• Focuses on 31 high-relevance cases selected by the STF's 'Information to Society' project.
• Includes analysis of news coverage using Google search with specific process identifiers and date filters.
• Released under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license for reuse.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect temporal bias inherent to the selected period starting October 2023.

Provenance

Source

Supreme Federal Court of Brazil (STF) via the 'Information to Society' project.

Collection Method

Case selection and analysis of court documents and news media searches.

Time Range

From October 2023 onward.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-13 18:52:05; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Brazil.