Dataset Description

• Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.00097

Dataset Summary

This dataset was introduced in CaseSumm: A Large-Scale Dataset for Long-Context Summarization from U.S. Supreme Court Opinions.

The CaseSumm dataset consists of U.S. Supreme Court cases and their official summaries, called syllabuses, from the period 1815-2019. Syllabuses are written by an attorney employed by the Court and approved by the Justices. The syllabus is therefore the gold standard for summarizing majority opinions, and ideal for evaluating other summaries of the opinion. We obtain the opinions from Public Resource Org's archive and extract syllabuses from the official opinions published in the U.S. Reporter and hosted by the Library of Congress. Our dataset is available under a CC BY-NC 4.0 license, representing a rich resource for the research community.

License and Citation

All the data and code within this repo are under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Please consider citing our project if it helps your research.

@misc{heddaya2024casesummlargescaledatasetlongcontext,
      title={CaseSumm: A Large-Scale Dataset for Long-Context Summarization from U.S. Supreme Court Opinions}, 
      author={Mourad Heddaya and Kyle MacMillan and Anup Malani and Hongyuan Mei and Chenhao Tan},
      year={2024},
      eprint={2501.00097},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.CL},
      url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.00097}, 
}