Apparent docket and opinioncluster data mismatch

[taylorkangbeck]

I'm trying to filter opinions by jurisdiction, and in order to do so I need to join search_court and search_opinion via search_docket and search_opinioncluster. But when manually inspecting the results, I find multiple rows where search_docket.case_name and search_opinioncluster.case_name significantly differ (ie refer to different cases).

An example on the Courtlistener website: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/2372379/govan-v-director-tdcj/ In my join, search_docket.case_name = 'Govan v. Director TDCJ', and search_opinioncluster.case_name = 'Jacko v. Thorn Americas, Inc.' These cases seem to have nothing to do with one another, with Govan being a prisoner/death row case and Jacko being litigation against a storage company.

This is not uncommon. Perhaps I'm missing something, but it seems to be a data issue.