AI in Judicial EducationExploratory Project
Deliverables

Handouts and slides, all made from the same data

Because every format was drawn from one screening-grade table, the numbers match across all of them. The table has had AI-assisted screening, then a primary-source audit by AI agents (all eight reversals, 12 random criminal opinions and 14 other opinions checked against the court’s own documents); no person has yet read every record. Download, print, or adapt them as models for your own materials. They are teaching material, not legal advice.

Slides: pick your length

The same story, told in three lengths. Choosing what to cut is the real work, and it’s a good job to hand to AI with clear instructions (see the slides and speaker notes prompt). Each deck comes with speaker notes.

Title slide of the 5 minutes deck5 minutes

Lightning talk or opening segment

Pair it with the discussion card.

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What’s in it (5 slides)
  1. 176 opinions. 8 reversals.
  2. Four families hold 61% of opinions and 1 of 8 reversals
  3. Reversed in 8 of 176 opinions, about 1 in 22
  4. Eight reversals: six let evidence in or let it reach the jury, two kept it out
  5. Carry back three things

Adds: The claim, the proof, and the takeaway.
Leaves out: The method, the audit and the limits (point people to the “How we know” sheet).

Title slide of the 10 minutes deck10 minutes

Brown-bag lunch or panel slot

Adds who did what, and the audit.

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What’s in it (9 slides)
  1. 176 opinions. 8 reversals.
  2. Four families hold 61% of opinions and 1 of 8 reversals
  3. Reversed in 8 of 176 opinions, about 1 in 22
  4. The four busiest rule families: 108 opinions, 1 reversal
  5. Eight reversals: six let evidence in or let it reach the jury, two kept it out
  6. Seven of the eight reversals are published; the 124 memoranda produced one
  7. AI-assisted screening, recomputed by code, then audited against the court’s documents by AI agents
  8. What the audit found: the headline holds, and the wording was corrected
  9. Carry back three things

Adds: The method and the honest audit.
Leaves out: The in-depth reversal slides and the monthly appendix.

Title slide of the 15 minutes deck15 minutes

Full session with questions

Adds depth, context and an appendix. Leave two minutes for questions and use the heat map live to answer them.

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What’s in it (15 slides)
  1. 176 opinions. 8 reversals.
  2. Four families hold 61% of opinions and 1 of 8 reversals
  3. Reversed in 8 of 176 opinions, about 1 in 22
  4. The four busiest rule families: 108 opinions, 1 reversal
  5. Reversals sit in small cells, so these are counts, not rates
  6. Six reversals let evidence in: judicial notice, confrontation and a statute
  7. More reversals that let evidence in: a jury-room slip, rape shield and vouching
  8. Two reversals kept evidence out, and each turned on how the court treated emails
  9. Seven of the eight reversals are published; the 124 memoranda produced one
  10. 41 opinions were affirmed despite error found or assumed
  11. Preservation changed on July 1, 2026: a definitive ruling no longer needs to be renewed
  12. AI-assisted screening, recomputed by code, then audited against the court’s documents by AI agents
  13. What the audit found: the headline holds, and the wording was corrected
  14. Carry back three things
  15. Appendix: reversals ran from zero to two a month

Adds: The reversals in depth, a rule change, and an appendix.
Leaves out: Nothing: it is the whole story.

How the three lengths were chosenThe five-minute deck keeps only the claim, the proof and the takeaway. The ten-minute deck adds how it was made and the audit, because trust is part of the message. The fifteen-minute deck adds depth, context and an appendix. Each longer deck contains the shorter one, so you can stop early without losing the thread.

Handouts (PDF)

All five PDFs are tagged for screen readers and set to English (US). The heat map’s table view holds the same content as the map: every opinion, its outcome, the rules it cites and the court’s link, and each reversal’s discussion question is in its detail panel. The rule pages list the opinions that cite each rule.

First page of Discussion card: eight reversals

Discussion card: eight reversals

Each reversal, with docket number and decision date first, what the court found, and a discussion question for educators. Reporter citations are shown as unverified.

What it teaches: Shows how to distill a long dataset into one scannable page.

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First page of Atlas poster

Atlas poster

Every one of the 176 opinions as a mark, grouped by rule. Print it large.

What it teaches: Shows the whole dataset at a glance, with the headline numbers beneath.

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First page of Field guide to the rule families

Field guide to the rule families

What each rule family asks and how the year’s opinions treated it.

What it teaches: Shows how plain-language explanation and data can share a page.

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First page of How we know

How we know

A short sheet on who did what, how far to trust the numbers, and what to say if someone asks “can I cite this?”

What it teaches: Shows how to be transparent about limits, which builds trust.

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First page of Audit memo

Audit memo

The review that checked the work. It recomputes the numbers and lists what needed correcting.

What it teaches: Shows what an audit looks like, and it’s the most instructive document here.

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And two things you can clickThe interactive heat map and the rules pages are deliverables too. The prompts to create each format are on the prompts page.