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From Case Law to Ratio Decidendi

Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2018
This paper is concerned with the task of automatically identifying legally binding principles, known as ratio decidendi or just ratio, from transcripts of court judgements, also called case law or just cases. After briefly reviewing the relevant definitions and previous work in the area, we present a novel system for automatically extracting ratio from
Josef Valvoda, Oliver Ray
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A computational model of ratio decidendi

Artificial Intelligence and Law, 1994
This paper proposes a model ofratio decidendi as a justification structure consisting of a series of reasoning steps, some of which relate abstract predicates to other abstract predicates and some of which relate abstract predicates to specific facts.
L Karl Branting
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Ratio Decidendi and Obiter Dictum

This book explores the concepts of ratio decidendi and obiter dictum from a historical-comparative perspective. It provides a comprehensive review of legal doctrine on precedent, delving into English and American Law so to illustrate its applicability to
Mitidiero, Daniel.
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A reduction-graph model of ratio decidendi

Proceedings of the fourth international conference on Artificial intelligence and law - ICAIL '93, 1993
This paper proposes a model of ration decidendi as a justification structure consisting of a series of reasoning steps, some of which relate abstract predicates to other abstract predicates and some of which relate abstract predicates to specific facts.
L Karl Branting
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A Formal Model of Ratio Decidendi

2000
Any complete account of legal analysis using precedents must include a model of ratio decidendi, the content of a precedent that is authoritative as to subsequent cases. Predicting, advocating, and justifying the binding effect of a precedent on subsequent cases all require identifying the authoritative elements of the precedent and showing how they ...
Branting L Karl
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Ratio Decidendi and Obiter Dictum

1991
Abstract According to the preliminary statement of the English rules of precedent contained in the last chapter, every court is bound to follow any case decided by a court above it in the hierarchy, and appellate courts (other than the House of Lords) are bound by their previous decisions. This statement is too concise because it does
Rupert Cross, J W Harris
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THE RATIO DECIDENDI OF A CASE

Modern Law Review, 1959
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