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To illustrate this, David walks through a comprehensive example: establishing a question-answering system focused on U.S. legal case law, specifically Supreme Court decisions. He explores the legal system's fundamentals—how common law is based on precedents and how Supreme Court rulings set binding standards.
By accessing the Library of Congress, he downloads numerous Supreme Court opinions—organized by topic, volume, and justice. The goal: create a structured, machine-readable dataset containing thousands of legal opinions on antitrust law, dating from the late 1980s onward. These documents are OCR'd PDFs, making them accessible electronically.