Wikidata:Property proposal/case id (mainland China)

case id (mainland China)

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Description	unique identifier of a legal proceeding in the jurisdiction of mainland China
Data type	External identifier
Domain	mainland China court decision (Q125456254), legal case (Q2334719)
Example 1	EN ZH → （2018）最高法行再26号 [lit. (2018) Supreme - Administrative - Retrial #26]
Example 2	EN ZH → （2016）京73民初277号 [lit. (2016) Beijing 73 - Civil - First-trial #277]
Example 3	EN ZH → （2016）豫民终347号 [lit. (2016) Henan High - Civil - Appeal #347]
Example 4	Q129820073 → （2024）鄂0102行初375号 [lit. (2024) Hubei 0102 - Administrative - First-trial #375]
Example 5	c:Category:Sentences of Ruan Xiaohuan on Feb 10, 2023 (page 1) → （2021）沪02刑初67号 [lit. (2021) Shanghai 02 - Criminal - First-trial #67]
Example 6	c:Category:Sentences of Lü Gengsong on Feb 5, 2008 (page 1) → （2008）杭刑初字第29号 [lit. (2008) Hangzhou - Criminal - First-trial #29]
Planned use	To be used for uniquely tagging case documents and decisions from courts and authorities in mainland China.
Number of IDs in source	around 45 574 000 court cases assigned with a case id in the year of 2023.
Expected completeness	always incomplete (Q21873886) (Not all cases have written judgement text published to the public.)
Country	mainland China (Q7262427)
See also	U. S. Supreme Court docket number (P7063), Supreme Court of Canada case number (P12592), Supreme Court of Sweden case number (P8407)
Distinct-values constraint	yes

Motivation

This is a restart of WIPO Lex ID (P12720), which I proposed in Wikidata:Property_proposal/case_number_(mainland_China), but the community finally defined the property as WIPO Lex ID, since all examples (court judgements/decisions) I introduced in the proposal were from the WIPO website. :D
Today when I wanted to enter data for this property, I find it completely changed, but reasonable.

I'm re-proposing the China property here.
For any formal judgement from a court (or eligible authority) in mainland China, there's a unique case id (案号, lit. case number) assigned to that legal proceeding. See third line (right-aligned) of Page 1 of a formal court decision. This id is almost the same as U. S. Supreme Court docket number (P7063).

There's a definitive regulation of case ids published in 2015 by China's supreme court. An unofficial English translation is available here if you're interested.

Case ids before 2015 (start of nation-wide digitization) can't be expected to follow a fixed style or format. So I would like to allow this property as a free-form text field, rather than a very strict one. --XsLiDian (talk) 14:04, 26 August 2024 (UTC)