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Citation parsing Fails if Letter in Volume

Open flooie opened this issue 6 years ago • 6 comments

Example: 71A A.F.T.R.2d (RIA) 3011 fails citation parsing because volume must be a digit.

flooie avatar Dec 18 '19 16:12 flooie

Volume 71A, huh? That's a new one!

mlissner avatar Dec 18 '19 17:12 mlissner

I imagine this affects every citation in that volume...how many such volumes have we come upon?

mlissner avatar Dec 18 '19 17:12 mlissner

Not sure how many such volumes yet. I'll be adding more failing grades soon.

flooie avatar Dec 18 '19 18:12 flooie

You'll sometimes see page numbers with letters as well, just FYI - typically where material is included which wasn't in the first edition. For instance, the dissent by Justice Baldwin in Wheaton v. Peters: https://books.google.com/books?id=5y43AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA445#v=onepage&q&f=false. Not a common case but it happens.

zvisrosen avatar Dec 19 '19 01:12 zvisrosen

It isn't present in CourtListener either. Is that concerning?

devlux76 avatar Dec 20 '21 13:12 devlux76

@devlux76

It's good to note - but we have since built a solution. (hat tip @jcushman) It looks like we need to add a regex pattern to

A.F.T.R.2d in reporters-db

using this regex pattern

and then do a version bump to resolve it.

flooie avatar Dec 20 '21 14:12 flooie