Disambiguate ohioctapp docket numbers

[grossir]

ohioctapp_{1 to 12} opinions may share the same docket number across counties, even in the same circuit. Example 1, 2 . This has been causing incorrect docket matching, and there is no direct way to disambiguate with the current docket number. An example of many cases with a single docket number 22CA15

From freelawproject/courtlistener#4256

[mlissner]

Thanks for spinning this off into its own issue. That's a nasty one. I guess the solution is to include the county information in our Ohio look ups? Do we even have that in the docket?

[grossir]

Currently we are not saving anything related to the county on the Docket, but the county listed in the HTML can be used to build a court name that would go in lower_court_str.

Independently from that, we could tweak the docket number as seen in the source, appending the district / circuit number and some letters from the county to make them unique.

What do you think @flooie ?

[mlissner]

Tweaking docket numbers is probably not something we can do. People would be upset. Happy to hear @flooie's thoughts though.

[flooie]

oh thats fun.

[flooie]

I think we should call the court tomorrow to get clarification on whether these are full docket numbers or if they have an extended version we could decipher and use. I think speaking to a clerk would help understand how they do this in practice.

[flooie]

Numbers are not unique to district court of appeals but unique to the district + county. So in theory you could have 14 22CA10's just from the fourth district. I use fourth because that is who I spoke to this morning.

Also some courts and districts do different things.

[grossir]

A possible solution:

• save the lower court, which is related to the County. For the cases linked in the first comment, the lower courts are "Gallia
  County Court of Common Pleas" and "Pickaway County Court of Common Pleas", but we could use a generic "{county} County Court"
• make a special case of the docket lookup for ohioctapp to include the lower_court_str

If there are no repeated county names across districts, that would make the lookup unique

[flooie]

their should be no repeated county names.