This project proposes to measure the linguistic distance between the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC), the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS), and the UK apex courts (House of Lords pre-2009; UK Supreme Court thereafter) using majority opinions from 1942 to 2022. Preliminary results of the SCC and SCOTUS corpora reveal a small but consistent within-court-versus-cross-court cosine gap.

Next steps: Canadian NER development.