Cross link Oral arguments to Decisions

[jraller]

When the database contains the decision for an oral arguments, show a link to the corresponding entry. This feature could wait until dockets, but could also be implemented ahead of that.

See:

https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/2758569/integrity-staffing-solutions-inc-v-busk

and

https://www.courtlistener.com/audio/670/integrity-staffing-solutions-inc-v-busk for an example.

Key on court and docket number?

[mlissner]

Yep. Totally agree and in fact the dockets are in place for this to happen. What's missing is an algorithm that checks every decision as it comes out to see if we have the oral argument stashed away somewhere. If a match is made, use the docket for the oral argument and just add the decision to it.

Things I haven't had a chance to think about:

• Should the matching happen at crawl time or later on some kind of periodic basis?
• How should the matching algo work?
• Docket integration:
  • How do people discover the docket for an oral arg or decision?
  • How do people search dockets?
  • Alerts on dockets?
  • Faves on dockets?
  • Design of the docket page (it's currently very plain)?

It's probably a medium-sized feature and likely one that can be done piece by piece (start by doing matching, then bit by bit add integration features), but I put it off when releasing oral args just to get them out the door.

[mlissner]

This is done. :)