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- Title
Detecting the influence of the Chinese guiding cases: a text reuse approach.
- Authors
Chen, Benjamin M.; Li, Zhiyu; Cai, David; Ash, Elliott
- Abstract
Socialist courts are supposed to apply the law, not make it, and socialist legality denies judicial decisions any precedential status. In 2011, the Chinese Supreme People's Court designated selected decisions as Guiding Cases to be referred to by all judges when adjudicating similar disputes. One decade on, the paucity of citations to Guiding Cases has been taken as demonstrating the incongruity of case-based adjudication and the socialist legal tradition. Citations are, however, an imperfect measure of influence. Reproduction of language uniquely traceable to Guiding Cases can also be evidence of their impact on judicial decision-making. We employ a local alignment tool to detect unattributed text reuse of Guiding Cases in local court decisions. Our findings suggest that Guiding Cases are more consequential than commonly assumed, thereby complicating prevailing narratives about the antagonism of socialist legality to case law.
- Subjects
SOCIALISM; COURTS; JUDICIAL process; LEGAL judgments; SUPREME People's Court (China)
- Publication
Artificial Intelligence & Law, 2024, Vol 32, Issue 2, p463
- ISSN
0924-8463
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10506-023-09358-7