The data-journalism layer
The shape of American local law
Every labeled section carries four scores — how opaque, strict, paternalistic, and discretionary it is. Rolled up by geography and subject, they let you compare the character of law across the country.
38%
Avg. opacity
0–100, national
49%
Avg. strictness
Atlas dimension
75%
Substantive
Rules ∪ Enforcement
28k
Labeled sections
By state
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- North Carolina 80
- South Dakota 80
- Ohio 70
- Nebraska 58
- Virginia 55
- Florida 54
- Arizona 52
- Alaska 48
- Wisconsin 47
- Pennsylvania 44
- Minnesota 43
- New York 43
- Oregon 42
- Texas 40
- Washington 36
Higher = more opaque. n = sections behind each state’s score; small-n states omitted.
Most-regulated subjects
By sections tagged, across the labeled corpus.
What sections do
Five-class function distribution.
Context 44%
Rules 38%
Process 12%
Enforcement 6%
Scores are 0–1 model estimates (llama-3.3-70b teacher labels), intended for distillation into a ModernBERT classifier at full scale. They’re directional, not legal advice.
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