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• You're right on bdarcus. Thanks for clarifying. That's not what I intended. What I mean is that opinions, concurrences, and dissents are parts of a decision. How would you represent that relationship in RDF?

  in Cases and Documents? Comment by dvd September 24, 2007
• Another vote here. I've got plenty of horizontal space. It's the vertical that's at a premium.

  in sidebar Comment by dvd September 24, 2007
• Yes, I think this is the way to do it: LegalDocument Decision Opinion Concurrence Dissent The way I would explain it, though I don't have much authority for this is that the opinion is the explanation of the ma…

  in Cases and Documents? Comment by dvd September 22, 2007
• First, at least on Lexis, you could scrape the dissent info, but I don't think that's true for concurrences. As for showing the relationships, have you ever looked at a Shepard's? It's been a while since I've used the book form, but I wonder if it …

  in Cases and Documents? Comment by dvd September 21, 2007
• A lawyer would cite the Scalia dissent using a jumpcite ie: Lawrence v. Texas, 539 U.S. 558, 582 (2003). I think a lawyer would cite that as: Lawrence v. Texas, 539 U.S. 558, 582 (2003) (Scalia, J., dissenting). It's not clear, but I'm guessing y…

  in Cases and Documents? Comment by dvd September 20, 2007