Zotero Connector and Case.law / CourtListener

ce59
Hello,

Much free U.S. legal research is done using Harvard's Caselaw Access Project (url: case.law) and the Free Law Project's CourtListener website (url: courtlistener.com) .

It would be very useful if these two sites behaved in the same way as Google Scholar's case law resources (https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=6) when used with Zotero Connector, i.e. the cases are automatically recognized as court opinions by the connector and imported with the relevant information and fields (see, for an example, https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=9834052745083343188)

For CourtListener, this covers URLs starting with https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/
For Case.law, this covers URLs starting with https://cite.case.law/

I would be grateful for any assistance you can offer with making this possible.
  • adamsmith
    Both look eminently doable. I've created tickets for them, how quickly that'll happen varies a lot, though
    https://github.com/zotero/translators/issues/3224
    https://github.com/zotero/translators/issues/3225
  • adamsmith
    @ce59 these are now both part of Zotero and should work very nicely.
  • RenukaTB
    Hello! This is all so interesting but I'm such novice I'd appreciate some help.
    I use a paid service to access Malaysian and Indian cases. I also use Westlaw for US cases. When I find cases I want, how do I include it in my library ( do I need to download the whole case? or can I just get the search returns into my library like its possible to do with saving search returns automatically on Web of Science?

    Secondly, like the other bibliographic category questions, I want to be able to separately group statutes, parliamentary debates and cases from journal articles and theses.

    Is there a video link showing us how to do that with our existing library?
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