French legal decisions are collected from major courts including the Cour de Cassation, Cour d'Appel, and Tribunal Judiciaire. The dataset is automatically gathered via the Judilibre API and published by antoinejeannot, with updates released every few days as of March 2025.
Use Cases
- Classify case law by court type using the court name field.
- Summarize lengthy legal decision text for faster legal review.
- Analyze temporal trends in rulings using the decision date metadata.
- Train entity recognition models to extract parties, judges, and laws from ruling text.
Strengths
- Data is sourced directly from the official Judilibre API provided by the Cour de Cassation.
- Datasets are versioned and updated every few days, ensuring regular refresh.
Limitations
- Specific row counts, column details, and file formats are not provided in the description.
- The geographic scope is limited to France, with no international legal data.
Provenance
- Source
- Judilibre API provided by the French Cour de Cassation.
- Collection Method
- Automated collection, processing, and conversion of data from the API.
- Time Range
- null
- Freshness
- Updated every few days; last update recorded on 2025-03-20.
- Geography
- France