opennyaiorg/InJudgements_dataset

Representative sample of Indian Court Judgments

A representative sample of Indian court judgment was created by taking most cited IndianKanoon judgments controlling for court and case type.

Data

The data for representative sample during 1950 to 2017 can be found here. It has IndianKanoon URL and full text of the judgment.

Data Collection method

Most cited judgements are likely to be more important ones. But just taking most cited judgments from a given court would result in bias in certain types of cases (E.g. criminal cases). Hence it is needed to control for types cases to consider the variety of judgements. So we created following 8 types of cases (tax, criminal ,civil, Motor Vehicles, Land & Property, Industrial & Labour, Constitution, Financial) which are most frequently present. Classification of each judgement into one these 8 types is complex task. We have used naive approach to use act names for assigning a judgment to a case type. E.g. if judgment mentions "tax act" then most probably it belongs to "tax" category. Following are the key act names were used in the Indian Kanoon search queries.
The search keywords are based on most famous acts of that case type.

Case_Type	IndianKanoon Query
tax	tax act ORR excise act ORR customs act ORR abkari act ORR it act ORR income-tax act ORR ke act ORR kvat act ORR tariff act ORR goods and services tax
criminal	IPC ORR penal code ORR criminal procedure ORR dowry ORR narcotics ORR narcotic ORR domestic violence ORR ndps act ORR arms act ORR dp act ORR immoral traffic
civil	civil procedure ORR family courts ORR marriage act ORR wakf act ORR hindu adoption and maintenance act ORR hindu minority and guardianship act
Motor Vehicles	motor vehicles act ORR mv act ORR motor vehicle act ORR imv act ORR national highways act ORR motor vehicles taxation act
Land & Property	land acquisition act ORR la act ORR succession act ORR rent control ORR transfer of property act ORR land revenue act ORR land reforms act ORR land reforms (amendment) act ORR rent act ORR eviction of unauthorised occupants ORR ptcl act ORR tenancy and agricultural lands act ORR tp act ORR prohibition of transfer of certain lands ORR land revenue code ORR drc act ORR hindu succession (amendment) act ORR town planning act ORR country planning act ORR mhada act ORR land conservancy act ORR klr act ORR public premises act ORR tenancy act ORR easements act ORR registration act ORR stamp act ORR real estate (regulation and development) act ORR foreign exchange management act ORR right to fair compensation and transparency in land acquisition
Industrial & Labour	industrial disputes act ORR companies act ORR compensation act ORR wages act ORR mines and minerals development and regulation (mmdr) act ORR payment of gratuity act ORR id act ORR pulp act ORR labour practices act ORR industrial dispute act ORR mines and minerals (development and regulation) act ORR industrial areas development act ORR meps act ORR mmrd act ORR information technology act ORR provident funds and miscellaneous provisions act ORR area development act ORR factories act ORR wc act ORR commercial courts act ORR mines and minerals regulation of development act ORR industrial relations act ORR trade unions act ORR maharashtra employees of private schools (condition of service) ORR industrial townships act ORR state insurance act
Constitution	Constitution
Financial	negotiable instruments act ORR ni act ORR sarfaesi act ORR securitisation and reconstruction of financial assets and enforcement of security interest act ORR finance act ORR foreign exchange regulation act ORR bankers book evidence act ORR state bank of india act ORR employees state insurance act ORR conservation of foreign exchange and prevention of smuggling activities act ORR prevention of money laundering act ORR benami transactions ORR securitization and reconstruction of financial assets and enforcement of security interest act ORR banking regulation act ORR recovery of debts due to banks and financial institutions act ORR state financial corporation act ORR interest act ORR chartered accountants act ORR state financial corporations act ORR securities and exchange board of india act

One Indian Kanoon search query was created for each case type (as per table above) and court. E.g. For Supreme court Motor Vehicle cases, following query was used

motor vehicles act ORR mv act ORR motor vehicle act ORR imv act ORR national highways act ORR motor vehicles taxation act doctypes: supremecourt,scorders fromdate: 1-1-1950 todate: 31-12-2017

Top most cited results from each query was taken. All such results were combined to produce final result. Duplicate judgments obtained in the results were dropped. The final distribution of case type and court for duration 1950 to 2017 is as below.

Court_Name_Normalized	Civil	Constitution	Criminal	Financial	Industrial&Labour	Land&Property	Motorvehicles	Tax	total
Supreme Court of India	200	200	200	200	200	200	200	200	1600
Delhi High Court	100	100	99	100	100	100	100	100	799
Bombay High Court	100	100	100	87	100	53	100	100	740
Madras High Court	100	100	100	35	100	100	100	100	735
Patna High Court	100	100	0	116	100	111	100	100	727
Rajasthan High Court	100	100	100	110	58	70	71	100	709
Madhya Pradesh High Court	96	100	100	77	88	91	55	100	707
Karnataka High Court	95	99	97	51	90	79	96	97	704
Calcutta High Court	70	100	79	72	17	164	100	100	702
Kerala High Court	0	100	100	94	100	100	100	100	694
Punjab-Haryana High Court	100	100	100	77	53	76	83	100	689
Gujarat High Court	79	100	100	98	14	86	100	100	677
Delhi District Court	99	100	91	98	63	100	100	0	651
Allahabad High Court	100	100	100	40	22	74	100	100	636
Andhra High Court	100	100	100	75	18	38	100	86	617
Orissa High Court	0	0	0	77	0	89	0	0	166
Income Tax Appellate Tribunal	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	80	80
Himachal Pradesh High Court	0	0	0	18	0	44	0	0	62
Gauhati High Court	0	0	0	39	0	16	0	0	55
Bangalore District Court	0	0	8	2	36	0	0	0	46
Jharkhand High Court	0	0	0	24	0	18	0	0	42
Chattisgarh High Court	0	0	0	16	0	16	0	0	32
Jammu & Kashmir High Court	0	0	0	15	0	16	0	0	31
Uttarakhand High Court	0	0	0	7	0	13	0	0	20
Customs, Excise and Gold Tribunal	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	19	19
Sikkim High Court	0	0	0	9	0	6	0	0	15
High Court of Meghalaya	0	0	0	5	0	7	0	0	12
Tripura High Court	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	2
Custom, Excise & Service Tax Tribunal	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1

Judgments from tribunals are considered only for Tax cases (Income Tax Appellate Tribunals, Customs, Excise and Gold Tribunal , Custom, Excise & Service Tax Tribunal). For district courts, only Delhi district court and Banglore district court judgements were covered by Indian Kanoon at the time of data creation.