Law Technology

Case Law Wordles

By JohnPMayer

One of the cool things about having a commons that contains public domain versions of case law is that it invites experimentation.

I ran across this nifty toy the other day called Wordle (www.wordle.net) that let me create the above graphic. I grabbed a random Supreme Court case from CALI's Legal Education Commons (www.cali.org/lec or www.legaleducationcommons.org) and produced the Wordle you see above. Can you tell what the case is about?

BTW, clicking on the image will take you to the text of the case.

I will try to post a new one of these every couple of days just to see what happens as I run various famous cases through Wordle.

Full post as published by CALIopolis on February 23, 2009 (boomark / email).