Emergence of network effects and predictability in the judicial system

Abstract As courts strive to simultaneously remain self-consistent and adapt to new legal challenges, a complex network of of citations between decided cases is established. Using network science methods to analyze the underlying patterns of citations between cases can help us understand the large-s...

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Main Authors: Enys Mones, Piotr Sapieżyński, Simon Thordal, Henrik Palmer Olsen, Sune Lehmann
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2021-02-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-82430-x