I've extracted the words from 8077 Ontario Court of Appeal judgements and calculated the 100 most frequently used words.
The most common case-related words are what you'd expect: "appellant", "judge", "trial", etc.
The word "appellant" appears almost three times as often as "respondent". The word "judge" appears four times more often than "counsel".
| Word | Number of Mentions |
|---|---|
| that | 365205 |
| appellant | 106100 |
| judge | 103432 |
| this | 102567 |
| trial | 100160 |
| with | 95195 |
| evidence | 74917 |
| court | 70564 |
| appeal | 70340 |
| from | 64364 |
| would | 54153 |
| have | 53253 |
| which | 43971 |
| were | 42717 |
| respondent | 39375 |
| there | 38807 |
| order | 36712 |
| under | 35278 |
| case | 34801 |
| been | 32876 |
| justice | 30178 |
| they | 28883 |
| counsel | 26660 |
| made | 26500 |
| crown | 26053 |
| other | 26015 |
| ontario | 25253 |
| their | 24790 |
| issue | 24374 |
| could | 24340 |
| also | 24173 |
| whether | 24034 |
| when | 23855 |
| motion | 23699 |
| jury | 23406 |
| reasons | 23303 |
| these | 23271 |
| application | 22583 |
| between | 22412 |
| time | 21928 |
| should | 21896 |
| before | 21495 |
| view | 19110 |
| first | 18805 |
| claim | 18674 |
| costs | 18663 |
| against | 18577 |
| because | 18434 |
| only | 18348 |
| para | 18327 |
| about | 18237 |
| person | 18185 |
| appellants | 18098 |
| after | 17939 |
| canada | 17564 |
| however | 17519 |
| where | 17474 |
| such | 17331 |
| will | 17170 |
| must | 16998 |
| decision | 16935 |
| found | 16620 |
| police | 16532 |
| agreement | 16241 |
| sentence | 16154 |
| does | 15860 |
| reasonable | 15682 |
| defence | 15557 |
| circumstances | 15297 |
| date | 14977 |
| parties | 14759 |
| action | 14738 |
| into | 14612 |
| what | 14322 |
| those | 14297 |
| basis | 14047 |
| said | 13896 |
| fact | 13885 |
| respect | 13816 |
| some | 13608 |
| criminal | 13495 |
| than | 13465 |
| section | 13202 |
| make | 13178 |
| both | 13126 |
| agree | 12974 |
| right | 12879 |
| offence | 12779 |
| respondents | 12528 |
| statement | 12466 |
| part | 12159 |
| more | 12159 |
| judgment | 12108 |
| support | 12016 |
| information | 11990 |
| while | 11971 |
| property | 11787 |
| accused | 11782 |
| complainant | 11740 |
| years | 11697 |