System and method for retrieving information from citation-rich documents

Abstract

Disclosed are a computer-readable code, system and method for use in accessing information derivable from a collection of citation-rich documents, such as scientific articles, works of scholarship, appellate cases, legal documents, and the like. The system includes a database containing phrases that represent summary holdings, statements, or conclusions contained in said documents, and for each such phrase, a tag representing the citation associated with that statement in a document. The method involves searching the database to identify one or more phrases that correspond to a user-input statement of interest, accessing the database to link each of the one or more phrases so identified to an associated citation tag in the database, and presenting to the user, information related to the linked citation tag(s).

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.