Case law twitter bot
29 March 2026
In August 2020 I spent a weekend building a Twitter bot that tweeted new Rechtssätze by the Austrian Supreme Court, the OGH. A Rechtssatz is a condensed legal proposition extracted from a ruling, each capturing a distinct principle the court applied or affirmed. They get their own identifier and accumulate citations across many subsequent decisions, so they're what practitioners primarily track, not the full ruling text.
The data came from the RIS, Austria's government legal information system,…
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