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Overruling
The Overruling dataset is a law dataset corresponding to the task of determining when a sentence is overruling a prior decision. This is a binary classification task, where positive examples are overruling sentences and negative examples are non-overruling sentences extracted from legal opinions. In law, an overruling sentence is a statement that nullifies a previous case decision as a precedent, by a constitutionally valid statute or a decision by the same or higher ranking court which establishes a different rule on the point of law involved. The Overruling dataset consists of 2,400 sentences.
To read more about the dataset, please see our paper or our blogpost.
Benchmarks archive 2025-07-28
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| First row (archive order) | Paper | Code | ||||
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| Text Classification | Overruling | Custom Legal-BERT F1(10-fold) 97.4 | When Does Pretraining Help? Assessing Self-Supervised... | reglab/casehold +1 | 3 | Compare |
Papers archive 2025-07-28
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| Date | Samples run Syntology | |||
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| 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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