Outlining the law
Rory Perry is engaged in outlining the law, to define categories into which new decisions can be assigned and displayed.
This is, of course, what the West Key Number system does. West has an enormous staff of salaried people, lawyers and non-lawyers, who do this very thing, and who create the headnotes and syllabi for its reported cases. West is able to pay these people, and is motivated to keep them busy, because it sells their work product.
What are the prospects for the adoption of a non-West non-keynoted version of the same thing, entirely driven by volunteer energy? As Rory's credo says, the law is free, but packaging it in order to make it more useful takes time and effort. If time and effort are not rewarded by money, how much of either will be expended?
5:33:30 PM 
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