Appeal Cases heard at the Supreme Court of Nigeria Dataset

The dataset contains information about appeal cases heard at the Supreme Court of Nigeria (SCN) between the years 1962 to 2022. The dataset was extracted from case files that were provided by The Prison Law Pavillion; a data archiving firm in Nigeria. The dataset originally consisted of documentation of the various appeal cases alongside the outcome of the judgment of the SCN. Feature extraction techniques were used to generate a structured dataset containing information about a number of annotated features. Some of the features were stored as string values while some of the features were stored as numeric values. The dataset consists of information about 14 features including the outcome of the judgment. 13 features are the input variables among which 4 are stored as strings while the remaining 9 were stored as numeric values. Missing values among the numeric values were represented using the value -1. Unsupervised and Supervised machine learning algorithms can be applied to the dataset for the purpose of extracting important information required for gaining a better understanding of the relationship that exists among the features and with respect to predicting the target class which is the outcome of the SCN judgment.