Linking linked data to U.S. law
Bob DuCharme does an excellent job of covering resources that will help you create meaningful links to US court decisions, laws and regulations.
That will be useful for readers/researchers but I can’t shake the feeling that it is very impoverished linking.
You can link out to a court decision, law or regulation but you can’t say why, in any computer processable way, a link is being made.
Even worse, if I start from the court decision, law or regulation, all I can search for are invocations of that court decision, law or regulation, but I won’t know why it was being invoked.
There are specialized resources in the legal community (Shepard’s Citations) that alter that result but the need for general solution of more robust linking remains.