Instead of product liability, suppose the category of previous lawsuits of a certain type is the category of employment discrimination. Do we have enough data to create either associative taxonomies or NLP training sets for them? Yes. In the following data, we can see that there were 14,834 cases in Nature of Suit (NOS) code 442 in 2011, 14,307 cases in 2012, and 12,346 cases in 2013.
But the high water mark for these cases was further back in time. Hereâs the longer view:
NOS Code 442
Civil RightsâEmployment
No. of Cases Filed Between January 01 and December 31 in Each Year
|
2000 |
20,116 |
|
2001 |
20,113 |
|
2002 |
20,172 |
|
2003 |
19,537 |
|
2004 |
18,818 |
|
2005 |
15,527 |
|
2006 |
13,555 ... |
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