---
license: mit
task_categories:
- text-classification
language:
- de
tags:
- legal
pretty_name: german_court_decisions
size_categories:
- 10K<n<100K
---
# Dataset Card for german-court-decisions
60k judicial decisions in Germany retrieved on January 1, 2024.

# Dataset Description

**Language(s) (NLP):** German<br>
**License:** MIT

Copyright notice: Automated retrieval of decisions from federal and state databases in Germany is permitted for non-commercial purposes only. As a result, the use of this dataset is permitted for non-commercial purposes only.

## Uses

Prediction of verdicts based on statement of facts.

### Direct Use

Classification convicted/dismissed etc.

### Out-of-Scope Use

Text generation of verdicts based on statement of facts.

## Dataset Structure

```
features: ['court', 'state', 'date', 'offense', 'decision', 'costs to defendant', 'convicted', 'costs to plaintiff', 'dismissed']
```

```court```: &emsp;court name (string), e.g. 'AG Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler'; may be empty if it does not match the search mask<br>
```state```: &emsp;federated state (string), e.g. 'Brandenburg', 'Berlin', ... , 'Thüringen' <br>
```date```: &emsp;date (string), e.g. '03.04.2013'; may be empty if it does not match the search mask<br>
```offense```: &emsp;statement of facts (string; _Tatbestand_ in German)<br>
```decision```: &emsp;verdict (string; _Tenor_ in German)<br>

```costs to defendant```: &emsp;Boolean (0/1), text phrase detection (see data processing below)<br>
```convicted```: &emsp;Boolean (0/1), text phrase detection (see data processing below)<br>
```costs to plaintiff```: &emsp;Boolean (0/1), text phrase detection (see data processing below)<br>
```dismissed```: &emsp;Boolean (0/1), text phrase detection (see data processing below)<br>

## Dataset Creation, Data Collection and Processing

Data creation: &emsp;Federal governments in Germany<br>
Data collection: &emsp;[github.com/niklaswais/gesp](https://github.com/niklaswais/gesp) on January 1, 2024<br>
Data processing: &emsp;[github.com/SH-108/german_court_decisions](https://github.com/SH-108/german_court_decisions/blob/main/postprocess_court_decisions.ipynb)