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---

# French Court of Cassation Decisions Dataset (CASS)

## Dataset Description

The French Court of Cassation Decisions Dataset (CASS) is a comprehensive collection of judicial decisions from the French Court of Cassation (Cour de cassation), France's highest court for civil and criminal matters. This dataset contains decisions that represent the most authoritative interpretations of French law, providing an invaluable resource for legal research, analysis, and machine learning applications in the French legal domain.

### Source Data

The data is sourced from the official DILA (Direction de l'Information Légale et Administrative) platform through their open data initiative. The original data is available at: https://echanges.dila.gouv.fr/OPENDATA/CAPP/

## Content Description

Each entry in the dataset represents a single judicial decision and includes the following information:

- **id**: Unique identifier for the decision
- **ancien_id**: Previous identifier (if applicable)
- **origine**: Origin of the decision
- **url**: URL to the source document
- **nature**: Nature of the document
- **titre**: Title of the decision
- **date_decision**: Date when the decision was made
- **juridiction**: Court that made the decision
- **numero**: Case number
- **solution**: Decision outcome
- **numero_affaire**: Case reference number
- **publie_bulletin**: Publication status in official bulletin
- **formation**: Court chamber/formation
- **date_decision_attaquee**: Date of the challenged decision
- **juridiction_attaquee**: Court whose decision is being challenged
- **siege_appel**: Location of the Appeal Court
- **juridiction_premiere_instance**: First instance court
- **lieu_premiere_instance**: Location of first instance court
- **demandeur**: Plaintiff information
- **defendeur**: Defendant information
- **president**: Presiding judge
- **avocat_general**: Attorney General
- **avocats**: Lawyers involved
- **rapporteur**: Reporting judge
- **ecli**: European Case Law Identifier
- **contenu**: Full text content of the decision
- **sommaire_principal**: Principal summary
- **sommaire_reference**: Reference summary
- **sommaire_analyse**: Detailed analysis of the decision

## Usage

This dataset can be loaded using the Hugging Face datasets library:

```python
from datasets import load_dataset

dataset = load_dataset("username/french-court-cassation-decisions")
```

## Data Processing

The dataset was created by:
1. Downloading compressed archives from DILA's open data platform
2. Extracting and parsing XML files containing court decisions
3. Cleaning and structuring the data into a consistent format
4. Converting the data into JSONL format for efficient processing

## Applications

This dataset is suitable for various applications, including:
- Legal document retrieval systems
- Case law analysis
- Legal precedent research
- Machine learning models for legal text classification
- Legal question answering systems
- Legal text summarization
- Analysis of Supreme Court jurisprudence

## Citation

If you use this dataset in your research, please cite:

```
@dataset{french_court_cassation_decisions,
  author = {DILA},
  title = {French Court of Cassation Decisions Dataset},
  year = {2023},
  publisher = {Direction de l'Information Légale et Administrative},
  url = {https://echanges.dila.gouv.fr/OPENDATA/CAPP/}
}
```

## License

This dataset is released under the MIT License. Please refer to the license file for more details.

## Acknowledgments

Thanks to DILA (Direction de l'Information Légale et Administrative) for making this data publicly available through their open data initiative.