Paper ID: 2406.10824

Citation-Based Summarization of Landmark Judgments

Purnima Bindal, Vikas Kumar, Vasudha Bhatnagar, Parikshet Sirohi, Ashwini Siwal

Landmark judgments are of prime importance in the Common Law System because of their exceptional jurisprudence and frequent references in other judgments. In this work, we leverage contextual references available in citing judgments to create an extractive summary of the target judgment. We evaluate the proposed algorithm on two datasets curated from the judgments of Indian Courts and find the results promising.

Submitted: Jun 16, 2024