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language:
- fr
license: mit
pretty_name: French Court Decisions Dataset (INCA)
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---

# French Court Decisions Dataset (INCA)

## Dataset Description

The French Court Decisions Dataset (INCA) is a comprehensive collection of judicial decisions from various French courts. This dataset contains decisions from multiple jurisdictions, providing a broad perspective on French jurisprudence and representing an essential 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/INCA/

## 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**: Summary 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-decisions-inca")
```

## Data Processing

The dataset was created through the following steps:
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
- Jurisprudential analysis across different French courts

## Citation

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

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

## 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.