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Legal writing has something like this. If you look at the - sometimes dreaded - Bluebook, "signals" play a large role in indicating the relevance of the cited
by friesfreeze 4y ago
Legal writing has something like this.
If you look at the - sometimes dreaded - Bluebook, "signals" play a large role in indicating the relevance of the cited source to the argument.
See generally Peter W. Martin, Introduction to Basic Legal Citation: § 6-300 Signals, Legal Information Institute (last visited July 10, 2022), https://www.law.cornell.edu/citation/6-300 https://www.law.cornell.edu/citation/6-300.
- truethomas 4y agoThe legal example is actually maybe even more interesting than you may think. The big traditional databases have always employed human reviewers to identify cases that overrule or question other cases. Attempts to automate this process by e.g. Casetext have had somewhat limited success, despite the fact that this is a restricted context with formal language. It’s getting better, but whether it will ever be good enough is still an open question. See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shepard%27s_Citations https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shepard%27s_Citations (By the way, signals are not much used in opinion writing; that aspect of the Bluebook is geared more towards law reviews. Approval or disapproval of prior authority is in the opinion text itself, as this is a formal activity of the court. Notation as to whether a given cited case approves or disapproves another case would be in a parenthetical after the citation, e.g. “Smith v. Jones 123 Foo2d 456 (1999) (overruling Jones v. Smith 12 Foo2d 345 (1989)).”)