The Role of Questions

Shapiro, Theodore

doi:10.1080/00107530.1992.10746756

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“…As legal publications and their interconnections constitute the law itself, rather than being mere by-products of the research enterprise like in other scientific disciplines, this should not come as a big surprise. 377 When talking about citations and the law, I already mentioned 378 that comparatively early, truly radical approaches were [69] proposed in the area of legal citation analysis. In 1970 Stephen Marx recommended 379 that CALR users should not rely on "the superimposed key word systems", but should rather make use of "the cross-citation structure because it provides a more rational linkage between relevant cases".…”

Section: Citation Analyses On Legal Document Collectionsmentioning

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Using Citation Analysis Techniques for Computer-Assisted Legal Research in Continental Jurisdictions

Geist

2009

SSRN Journal

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The following research investigates the use of citation analysis techniques for relevance ranking in computer-assisted legal research systems. Overviews on information retrieval, legal research, computer-assisted legal research (CALR), and the role of citations in legal research enable the formulation of a proposition: Relevance ranking in contemporary CALR systems could profit from the use of citation analysis techniques. After examining potential previous work in the areas of Web search, legal network analysis, and legal citation analysis, the proposition is further developed into a testable hypothesis: A basic citation-based algorithm, despite all its shortcomings, could be used to significantly improve relevance ranking in computer-assisted legal research. By computing and analysing the distribution of 242,078 headnote citations across 80,195 opinions written by the Austrian Supreme Court of Justice between 1985 and 2008, proof for this hypothesis is presented.

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Section: Citation Analyses On Legal Document Collectionsmentioning

confidence: 99%