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On the Role of Negative Precedent in Legal Outcome Prediction
Josef Valvoda, Ryan Cotterell, Simone Teufel
Every legal case sets a precedent by developing the law in one of the following two ways. It either expands its scope, in which case it sets positive precedent, or it narrows it, i…
cs.CY2021
What About the Precedent: An Information-Theoretic Analysis of Common Law
Josef Valvoda, Tiago Pimentel, Niklas Stoehr +2
In common law, the outcome of a new case is determined mostly by precedent cases, rather than by existing statutes. However, how exactly does the precedent influence the outcome of…