A network analysis of the Singapore court of appeal's citations to precedent

This article presents findings from an empirical network analysis of citation practices in Singapore’s highest court. A network of all 987 reported Court of Appeal judgments handed down from 2000 to 2017 is constructed. Network centrality algorithms are used to rank judgments by centrality. Judgment...

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Main Author: SOH, Jerrold Tsin Howe
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spelling sg-smu-ink.sol_research-51132022-08-15T06:30:00Z A network analysis of the Singapore court of appeal's citations to precedent SOH, Jerrold Tsin Howe This article presents findings from an empirical network analysis of citation practices in Singapore’s highest court. A network of all 987 reported Court of Appeal judgments handed down from 2000 to 2017 is constructed. Network centrality algorithms are used to rank judgments by centrality. Judgments on contract law, particularly on contractual interpretation and terms, emerge as the most central. Based on this, this article argues that more attention can be paid to interpretation per se as a legal skill. More generally, this article establishes a framework for applying network analysis to Singapore jurisprudence on a larger scale. 2019-03-01T08:00:00Z text application/pdf https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sol_research/3155 https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sol_research/article/5113/viewcontent/A_Network_Analysis_of_the_Singapore_Court_of_Appeal___ssrn_draft.pdf http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law eng Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University Singapore Legal System Citations Network Analysis Computational Legal Studies Asian Studies Comparative and Foreign Law Courts
institution Singapore Management University
building SMU Libraries
continent Asia
country Singapore
Singapore
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language English
topic Singapore Legal System
Citations Network Analysis
Computational Legal Studies
Asian Studies
Comparative and Foreign Law
Courts
spellingShingle Singapore Legal System
Citations Network Analysis
Computational Legal Studies
Asian Studies
Comparative and Foreign Law
Courts
SOH, Jerrold Tsin Howe
A network analysis of the Singapore court of appeal's citations to precedent
description This article presents findings from an empirical network analysis of citation practices in Singapore’s highest court. A network of all 987 reported Court of Appeal judgments handed down from 2000 to 2017 is constructed. Network centrality algorithms are used to rank judgments by centrality. Judgments on contract law, particularly on contractual interpretation and terms, emerge as the most central. Based on this, this article argues that more attention can be paid to interpretation per se as a legal skill. More generally, this article establishes a framework for applying network analysis to Singapore jurisprudence on a larger scale.
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title A network analysis of the Singapore court of appeal's citations to precedent
title_short A network analysis of the Singapore court of appeal's citations to precedent
title_full A network analysis of the Singapore court of appeal's citations to precedent
title_fullStr A network analysis of the Singapore court of appeal's citations to precedent
title_full_unstemmed A network analysis of the Singapore court of appeal's citations to precedent
title_sort network analysis of the singapore court of appeal's citations to precedent
publisher Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University
publishDate 2019
url https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sol_research/3155
https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sol_research/article/5113/viewcontent/A_Network_Analysis_of_the_Singapore_Court_of_Appeal___ssrn_draft.pdf
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