PRECEDENT CAUSES OF TUBERCULOSIS.

Causes and Prevention of Tuberculosis

Unit precedent

Precedent in the Making

The Result Model of Precedent

The result model of precedent holds that a legal precedent controls a fortiori cases— those cases, that is, that are at least as strong for the winning side of the precedent as the precedent case itself. This paper defends the result model against some objections by Larry Alexander, drawing on ideas from the field of Artificial Intelligence and Law in order to define an appropriate strength ord...

Constitutional Precedent of Amicus Briefs

We investigate shared language between U.S. Supreme Court majority opinions and interest groups’ corresponding amicus briefs. Specifically, we evaluate whether language that originated in an amicus brief acquired legal precedent status by being cited in the Court’s opinion. Using plagiarism detection software, automated querying of a large legal database, and manual analysis, we establish seven...