This is an experiment with the Westlaw Company. Westlaw provides lawyers with documents on court cases. Such documents start with a synopsis of the case, written by attorneys. It is then followed by headnotes, which are points of law that are also written by attorneys and are summarized from the discussions. The last part is the discussion in its entirety, called opinion.
The task is to find for each entry in the headnotes, its best matches in the opinion, so that when lawyers study such a legal case document, they can see not only the important points of law, but also where these points of law are discussed in the opinion.
The results produced by our decomposition system (The best matches in the opinion are underlined ; the matching phrases are colorized).