Few areas of human expertise are so well understood that they can be completely reduced to general principles. Similarly, there are few domains in which experience is so extensive that every new problem precisely matches a previous problem whose solution is known. When neither rules nor examples are individually sufficient, problem-solving expertise depends on integrating both. This book presents a computational framework for the integration of rules and cases for analytic tasks typified by legal analysis. The book uses the framework for integrating cases and rules as a basis for a new model of legal precedents.

很少有领域的人类专业知识被如此充分地理解，以至于可以完全简化为一般原则。类似地，很少有领域的经验如此广泛，以至于每一个新问题都能精确地匹配解决方案已知的前一个问题。当规则和例子都不足以单独使用时，解决问题的专业技能取决于两者的结合。这本书提出了一个计算框架，用于整合法律分析所代表的分析任务的规则和案例。这本书使用整合案例和规则的框架作为新的法律先例模型的基础。