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Predicting the Law Area and Decisions of French Supreme Court Cases

arXiv 1708.01681 ↗First posted 4 Aug 2017cs.CLcited by 30

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Abstract (arXiv)

In this paper, we investigate the application of text classification methods to predict the law area and the decision of cases judged by the French Supreme Court. We also investigate the influence of the time period in which a ruling was made over the textual form of the case description and the extent to which it is necessary to mask the judge's motivation for a ruling to emulate a real-world test scenario. We report results of 96% f1 score in predicting a case ruling, 90% f1 score in predicting the law area of a case, and 75.9% f1 score in estimating the time span when a ruling has been issued using a linear Support Vector Machine (SVM) classifier trained on lexical features.

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  2. 2021ILDC for CJPE: Indian Legal Documents Corpus for Court Judgment Prediction and Explanationcited by 78
  3. 2021Swiss-Judgment-Prediction: A Multilingual Legal Judgment Prediction Benchmarkcited by 60
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  6. 2022ClassActionPrediction: A Challenging Benchmark for Legal Judgment Prediction of Class Action Cases in the UScited by 17
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  8. 2022An Empirical Study on Cross-X Transfer for Legal Judgment Predictioncited by 16
  9. 2023Zero-shot Transfer of Article-aware Legal Outcome Classification for European Court of Human Rights Casescited by 14
  10. 2021Dependency Learning for Legal Judgment Prediction with a Unified Text-to-Text Transformercited by 13
  11. 2023Leveraging Task Dependency and Contrastive Learning for Case Outcome Classification on European Court of Human Rights Casescited by 12
  12. 2024ChronosLex: Time-aware Incremental Training for Temporal Generalization of Legal Classification Taskscited by 11
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  5. 2022Unsupervised Simplification of Legal Textscited by 3
  6. 2025AnnoCaseLaw: A Richly-Annotated Dataset For Benchmarking Explainable Legal Judgment Predictioncited by 3
  7. 2023Classification of US Supreme Court Cases using BERT-Based Techniquescited by 2
  8. 2022Using attention methods to predict judicial outcomescited by 1
  9. 2023Exploring Graph Neural Networks for Indian Legal Judgment Predictioncited by 1
  10. 2024Discovering Significant Topics from Legal Decisions with Selective Inferencecited by 1
  11. 2024The Craft of Selective Prediction: Towards Reliable Case Outcome Classification -- An Empirical Study on European Court of Human Rights Casescited by 1
  12. 2024From Citations to Criticality: Predicting Legal Decision Influence in the Multilingual Swiss Jurisprudencecited by 1
  13. 2025The Judge Variable: Challenging Judge-Agnostic Legal Judgment Predictioncited by 1
  14. 2023FAIR: A Causal Framework for Accurately Inferring Judgments Reversalscited by 0
  15. 2023Predicting delays in Indian lower courts using AutoML and Decision Forestscited by 0
  16. 2024Text clustering applied to data augmentation in legal contextscited by 0
  17. 2024Towards Supporting Legal Argumentation with NLP: Is More Data Really All You Need?cited by 0
  18. 2026Vichara: Appellate Judgment Prediction and Explanation for the Indian Judicial Systemcited by 0