Religion Clause Pilot
Case-level oral-argument analysis
Originalism Usage Over Time
The lead screen compares originalist, historical, textual, and determinate legal-materials vocabulary with other legal and moral-reasoning vocabulary in the Religion Clause corpus.
Case-Level And Time Trends
Rates are normalized as hits per 10,000 transcript words.
Exploratory Screens
These are close-reading screens, not final proof. This version reports descriptive before/after rates and slopes.
What this means
Slope asks whether a selected dictionary is rising or falling over time. Cluster tests bundle related dictionaries into broader families so they can point to periods and cases for closer reading.
KWIC Validation
Use keyword-in-context review to check whether dictionary hits function in the intended legal sense.
Utterances caught by this dictionary
Keyword-in-context for selected term
Co-occurrence
This asks which searchable dictionaries tend to appear in the same case.
Data / Export
Case/transcript summaries are the primary pilot export. Raw utterance export is disabled for launch.
Methods And Dictionary
The primary unit is the case/transcript. Utterance-level scoring is retained only as the mechanical layer needed to count terms and run KWIC validation.
Conceptual categories are not searched directly. The app searches terms, phrases, case names, doctrinal labels, and historically significant references, then relies on KWIC review and close reading.
Oyez transcript data is loaded as a static corpus asset; uploads are omitted in this Pages-native version.