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Citation Analysis and Beyond: in Search of Indicators Measuring Case Law Importance
Marc van Opijnen
95 - 104
10.3233/978-1-61499-167-0-95
Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications
Volume 250: Legal Knowledge and Information Systems
Abstract

Could legal importance of a judicial decision be established by analyzing its position in a case law citation network? A network of nearly half a million citations was used to test a great variety of social network algorithms against three external benchmarks. All these algorithms were outperformed by a tailored variant of degree centrality. Furthermore, regression analysis was used to explore the possible relevance of eleven variables to the legal importance of case law.

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