AI RESEARCH
Where Experts Disagree, Models Fail: Detecting Implicit Legal Citations in French Court Decisions
arXiv CS.AI
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ArXi:2603.22973v1 Announce Type: new Computational methods applied to legal scholarship hold the promise of analyzing law at scale. We start from a simple question: how often do courts implicitly apply statutory rules? This requires distinguishing legal reasoning from semantic similarity. We focus on implicit citation of the French Civil Code in first-instance court decisions and