docketscape - Legal Network and Congestion-Aware Delay Modeling for Court Dockets

Splits court delay into two parts: (1) what a case is, represented through the statutory Acts and Sections invoked by the case, and (2) where it sits, represented by time-varying court docket load. Builds a weighted similarity graph of cases from legal provisions using 'igraph' and 'Matrix', estimates censoring-aware expected resolution timelines using legally similar neighbours, calculates relative lateness, and models delay in relation to filing-time court docket load using 'survival'. Designed for case-level judicial records such as the Development Data Lab (DDL) extract of Indian lower courts (<https://www.devdatalab.org/judicial-data>). Observational and non-causal; does not rank judges, evaluate judicial performance, or claim causal delay effects.