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CaseHOLD (Case Holdings On Legal Decisions)
CaseHOLD (Case Holdings On Legal Decisions) is a law dataset comprised of over 53,000+ multiple choice questions to identify the relevant holding of a cited case. This dataset presents a fundamental task to lawyers and is both legally meaningful and difficult from an NLP perspective (F1 of 0.4 with a BiLSTM baseline). The citing context from the judicial decision serves as the prompt for the question. The answer choices are holding statements derived from citations following text in a legal decision. There are five answer choices for each citing text. The correct answer is the holding statement that corresponds to the citing text. The four incorrect answers are other holding statements.
To read more about the dataset, please see our paper or our blogpost.
Benchmarks archive 2025-07-28
All 2 leaderboards whose dataset resolves to this page shown (sort by any header). "First row" is the archive's own first row at snapshot, in the archive's row order; nothing here re-ranks and metric direction is not asserted.
| First row (archive order) | Paper | Code | ||||
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| Question Answering | CaseHOLD | Custom Legal-BERT Macro F1 (10-fold) 69.5 | When Does Pretraining Help? Assessing Self-Supervised... | reglab/casehold +1 | 3 | Compare |
| Few-Shot Learning | CaseHOLD | CoT-T5-11B (1024 Shot) Accuracy 68.3 | The CoT Collection: Improving Zero-shot and Few-shot... | kaistai/cot-collection +1 | 1 | Compare |
Papers archive 2025-07-28
2 shown of 2 papers with a leaderboard row on this dataset's benchmarks, newest first. The archive's own "papers using this dataset" list was never published, so this is the benchmark-backed subset; the archive's count for this dataset is 27. The Syntology column is from Syntology's graph (read 2026-09-24), stated per sample; it is not part of any archive number.
| Date | Samples run Syntology | |||
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| The CoT Collection: Improving Zero-shot and Few-shot Learning of Language Models via Chain-of-Thought Fine-Tuning | 2 | 1 | 23 May 2023 | not harvested |
| When Does Pretraining Help? Assessing Self-Supervised Learning for Law and the CaseHOLD Dataset | 2 | 3 | 18 Apr 2021 | ran 0 of 9 samples (9 unverified) |
Dataset loaders archive 2025-07-28
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Variants archive 2025-07-28
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