A Predictive Role for Intermediate Legal Concepts
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Experiments described here demonstrate a role that intermediate legal concepts play in predicting the decisions of new cases. The experiments compare variations of each of an Issue-Based Prediction algorithm (IBP) and a CATO prediction algorithm in which the use of legal concepts are ablated in various ways. The results confirm those legal philosophical theories that assert that intermediate concepts in legal principles perform a guiding or extending role in deciding new cases.
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