| Challenge: | Current legal outcome prediction models do not explain their reasoning in the real world, but human legal actors need to understand the model’s decisions. |
| Approach: | They propose a method for identifying the precedent employed by legal outcome prediction models and a taxonomy of legal precedent to compare human judges and neural models. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model learns to predict outcomes reasonably well, but its use of precedent is unlike that of human judges. |
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