docketscape: Legal Network and Congestion-Aware Delay Modeling for Court
Dockets
Splits court delay into two parts: (1) what a case is, represented
through the statutory Acts and Sections invoked by the case, and (2) where
it sits, represented by time-varying court docket load. Builds a weighted
similarity graph of cases from legal provisions using 'igraph' and 'Matrix',
estimates censoring-aware expected resolution timelines using legally
similar neighbours, calculates relative lateness, and models delay in
relation to filing-time court docket load using 'survival'. Designed for
case-level judicial records such as the Development Data Lab (DDL) extract
of Indian lower courts (<https://www.devdatalab.org/judicial-data>). Observational
and non-causal; does not rank judges, evaluate judicial performance, or claim
causal delay effects.
| Version: |
0.1.0 |
| Depends: |
R (≥ 4.1.0) |
| Imports: |
igraph, Matrix, stats, survival |
| Suggests: |
knitr, rmarkdown, spelling, testthat (≥ 3.0.0) |
| Published: |
2026-11-13 |
| DOI: |
10.32614/CRAN.package.docketscape (may not be active yet) |
| Author: |
Shraddha Ajit [aut, cre],
DK Janani [aut] |
| Maintainer: |
Shraddha Ajit <shra19076 at gmail.com> |
| BugReports: |
https://github.com/shraddhaajit/docketscape/issues |
| License: |
MIT + file LICENSE |
| URL: |
https://github.com/shraddhaajit/docketscape,
https://www.devdatalab.org/judicial-data |
| NeedsCompilation: |
no |
| Language: |
en-GB |
| Citation: |
docketscape citation info |
| Materials: |
README, NEWS |
| CRAN checks: |
docketscape results |
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