A active learning family-based review method includes selecting a document ranked as relevant by a machine learning model, identifying family documents relationally-linked to the ranked relevant document, generating a batch including the ranked relevant document adjacent to the family documents, and displaying the batch in a computing device. An active learning family-based review computing system includes a processor and a memory storing instructions that, when executed, cause the computing system to select a relevant document using machine learning, identify family documents, generate a batch including the relevant document adjacent to the family documents, and display the batch. A non-transitory computer readable medium stores program instructions that when executed, cause a computer system to select a relevant document using machine learning, identify family documents, generate a batch including the relevant document adjacent to the family documents, and display the batch.