Copyright damages — case explorers

2,183 U.S. copyright-infringement opinions · rhetorical structure & damages analysis

Two linked views over the same corpus. Start with the document tree to read how one opinion is built and reasoned, or the discourse-path map to see the corpus-wide structure of how willfulness findings connect to damage decisions. The two are cross-linked — every case and judge in the map opens in the document tree, and vice versa.

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Document tree

per-case opinion structure · 2,183 cases

Each opinion laid out as an outline of purpose-labelled sections (background, infringement, liability, relief & damages, attorney's fees, order…), with the full paragraph text and inline highlights.

  • Metadata & extracted features in the left column
  • Separated damage awards with source-paragraph provenance
  • Inline citations & footnotes, grouped by citation type
  • Click a judge, work type, or willfulness label → entity view
Open document tree →
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Discourse-path map

willfulness → damage · t-SNE explorer

Every directed discourse path from a willfulness finding to a damage decision, clustered by rhetorical shape and laid out in 2-D. Colour by cluster, damage-per-work, judge experience, or work category.

  • Natural-language search over paths, cases & judges
  • Trace a judge → their cases → their paths
  • Willfulness-status colouring & year-range filter
  • Path-distribution report across the corpus
Open path map →
Or browse a cross-cutting list

One server, one port. Run python3 app.py in this folder, then open http://127.0.0.1:8011.