Recently it's come up about which cases are missing from the CFJ archives. Since missing numbers are hidden on the main CFJ index page, I thought I'd share this:
https://faculty.washington.edu/kerim/nomic/archive_status2020.htm This is a static snapshot of the tool I use to look for gaps (the live version runs too long to share). Bolded entries are any entry where the last History entry does not start "Judged". That may mean incomplete (in recent cases anyway) but not always. Missing case numbers are shown. Some history: I inherited the cases around 2015 as a set of flat files from omd, who was cotc for a while but had to stop updating. It was a quiet time (note the 5 month gap between cfjs 3443 and 3444!) omd's updates stopped in 2013 around 3385 (the indicator is the disappearance of 'GMT' from the time stamps). omd inherited these from Murphy, who stored these in a mysql database (with that wonderful currently-missing technology: search). The translation from mysql to flat files left some odd quirks, in particular with people's names. Murphy had inherited that database from someone else (forget who), and I don't know the history before that. Over time I've managed to backfill in about half the cases in the 3400s, but took time off in the 3500-3600s, so there's still gaps there. Getting 10-20 old cases up per month or so, generally working backwards. My favorite part is the format consistency - it takes a fairly simple auto-parser to correctly read case history going back to 2000, and almost correctly (will need just a tweak or two) back to 1995 (though with huge missing case gaps back then). -G.
