I made it through the survey of case law published by courts/government on the web.  You can check out the public version here. As of this writing, South Carolina is missing because their website is down.  I’ll add that into this public worksheet as well as my private official copy later.

I really started to question the validity or usefulness of collecting this data about a third of the way through this.  So this was emotionally hard to get through.  Can I admit that?  Although now that I’m done I guess I’m happy I did it because it becomes obvious how uniformly bad case law publication is. So yay?

As with the codes, more in depth analysis is to come later after I tear through all of this, but you can play with the explore button on the bottom right hand side of the spreadsheet to get some graphs.  They require some data clean up to be more accurate, but you can see that PDFs and West publishing pretty much rule the day when it comes to case law.  I don’t know why I was surprised so many states use the regional reporters as their official publication, but here we are.

Now onto regulations!