A few small API changes
Michael Lissner
We're updating our code in a number of ways today and that is resulting in a number of changes to the format of our data dumps. If you use them in an automated fashion, please note the following changes:
- dateFiled is now date_filed
- precedentialStatus is now precedential_status
- docketNumber is now docket_number
- westCite is now west_cite
- lexisCite is now lexis_cite
Additionally, a new field, west_state_cite, has been added, which will have any citations to West's state reporters. We've made these changes in preparation of a proper API that will return XML and JSON. Before we released that API, we needed to clean up some old field values so they were more consistent. After this point, we expect better consistency in the fields of our XML.
If this causes any inconvenience or if you need any help with these changes, please let us know.
